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...more than 3,000 speeches on the floor in support of an international treaty banning genocide until it was finally approved in 1986. He spent little on his campaigns--in his last two elections, he accepted no contributions--and in 1975 instituted Congress's monthly Golden Fleece awards to highlight wasteful spending by the government. Among the winners: an alcohol-abuse agency's $102,000 tab to determine whether drunk fish were more aggressive than sober ones; and a law-enforcement group's $27,000 study to find out why inmates try to escape from prison...
...rendition of “Bewitched.” Also impressive was the impeccably timed percussive tapping in the six-person performance accompanied by the theme song from “C.O.P.S.” and “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson. Another highlight of the evening’s performance was “Commerical Break,” a short series of dances set to music from commercials. TAPS served up a delightfully cheesy Mentos commercial and a well-executed Gap Khakis piece, while Mainly Jazz delivered solid performances in their renditions...
...later, they are still happily married, very much in love, and, I dare say, walking together, hand-in-hand, happily ever after. While our American culture may not be amenable to that 1970s version of an Indian marriage, it does have much to learn from that custom. Arranged marriages highlight those aspects of matrimony which seem to have been lost in the mayhem of our Western mating rituals. Our dating culture permits us to run for the door at any sign of a small quirk or peculiarity, making us lose sight of the most important component of a marriage: compatibility...
...young hipsters and graying couples attending indie concerts with one another. Both groups, and several generations in between, packed Boston’s Avalon last Wednesday to see Calexico and Iron & Wine, for nearly four hours of music as diverse as its audience.The demographic disparity within the crowd was highlighted by their diverse reaction to opener Tom Fite’s strange electro-folk-punk-hip-hop stylings: “awesome” to the college student on my left, “wretched” to the middle-aged man on my right. Their disagreements seemed to disappear...
...college-football fans, rankingthe mind-blowing moves of University of Southern California (U.S.C.) running back Reggie Bush, one of the most thrilling players in history, has joined homecoming weekend as a favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like...