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...torpedo?) balanced on a ledge over the window. “There’s not too many people who show up with a bomb replica at a bar for aesthetic amusement,” Johnson says. The bomb is long and gray and more than enough to frighten away the uncertain customer...
...that the premise of his book was absurd. "The previous edition was $75 a day, but when I went to London last year I told the publisher $75 a day is impossible. They said, 'Can we do it for $90?' I suggested $150, but they didn't want to frighten people off." I asked Olson for some thrifty London tips. He erupted in laughter. "I guess you could sleep in Trafalgar Square and eat one meal a day out of a dumpster." Maybe that way I'd eat better...
...graduated, from blues shouter to respected blind musician (along with Al Hibbler and George Shearing) to rock star with his immensely popular touring show; and from the segregated days of pop music, when his picture was kept off album covers so as not to frighten the white folks, to a national icon whose rendition of ?America the Beautiful? achieved something like Kate Smith status. Was Charles, as one of his own albums proclaimed, a ?genius?? We?ll save that word for Mozart. But he was surely the genie let out of the R&B bottle. The cork got lost...
...this ideological framework sounds scary to the typical religiously ambivalent Harvard student, there’s still more to frighten. PHC’s students are exerting an immense influence in Washington circles. Out of the 100 interns working for the White House this semester, The New York Times reported, seven hailed from PHC, which has a mere 240-member student body. Their politics might help them win the jobs, but their SAT marks (a school average of 1320, significantly higher for such interns) are nothing to scoff...
...trends, which highlight a strong sense of social justice among today’s college students. College students are more progressive (dare I say liberal?) than their parents. In fact, 44 percent of college students described themselves as liberal on the survey (compared to 30 percent conservative), which should frighten all Republicans currently using “liberal” as a substitute for a four-letter word. Specifically, college students reject the Bush administration’s divisive social agenda. About 60 percent of those surveyed said they do not believe religious values should play an important role...