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...nine-member committee said Harvard's new leader should use the office to address national education issues. "The president should possess imagination, vision and the eloquence to express those qualities to the University and to the world," it said...
Herlihy's words, his disregard for the demographics which so obsess record promoters, echo a sentiment that performers frequently express. "We haven't really worried about how [our music] is going to be received," he says proudly. "We just try to get ourselves excited about...
Trinidadians traditionally express their political feelings in satirical calypso songs. Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson won a landslide four years ago to the tune of Captain, the Ship Is Sinking, a telling commentary on the island nation's economic decline. But the conservative Robinson almost lost the helm himself last week, when a group of fanatic black Muslims took him and 54 others hostage in an attempt to bring down the government...
Professionally, Gilliam runs his quintet like a dictatorship, repeatedly squashing members' attempts to express themselves and justifying his behavior by the fact that he is the star. "It's my name on the marquee," he tells Shadow (Wesley Snipes), who is arguably as talented as Gilliam. "When your name is on the marquee, you can run things your way." Gilliam continually refuses to fire the group's manager, childhood friend Giant (Lee), despite the latter's obvious ineffectiveness and serious gambling problems...
...provision)) would express a decision by society, speaking through the legislature, to leave it to individual justices . . . to make fundamental moral decisions about the interests of other people without any standards to guide the individual judge . . . There are some judges who believe that abortion . . . is morally wrong, who could not in good conscience issue an order requiring an abortion to be performed. There are others who believe that what may be thought to be in the "best interests" of the pregnant minor is itself just as necessarily a moral as a social question, upon which a judge may not morally...