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...Donnas are not a joke band, though they started out as one. After debuting in 1993 at their eighth-grade talent show and briefly hooking up with a producer-Svengali, each member assumed the pretend first name Donna (flipping the Ramones' gimmick of assuming the same last name) and played superfast punk riffs stolen from the Dead Boys and Voidoids. On Gold Medal they're going by their real names, and they have expanded their thievery to include licks from Loverboy, Kiss and other high priests of shallow catchiness. The music is nothing you haven't heard before. Songs like...
...Institute of Medicine reported that 44,000 to 98,000 patients die each year due to medical errors, making this the eighth leading cause of death in the United States...
...lightweight freshman eight, entered in the same event, also put in a good showing. An eighth-place finish for the lights put them just one second behind the entry from Yale...
...Black and White’s varsity eight came in eighth, despite an early lead over fifth-place finisher Virginia...
Junior Sloan Devlin and sophomore Christina Dahlman notched a first-place finish in the first day’s eighth race to finish 12th in the A-division with 191 points...