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...name "Chief" has stuck around, primarily for other reasons. Parish embodies the image of the heroic chief. He was always stood tall and proud, both in victory and defeat. His mere presence resonates a feeling of confidence and calmness. And while he was never one to draw attention to himself, you knew he'd always be there...
...Mere (To My Mom)," a French ballad with a soothing acoustic-guitar rhythm, features the best aspects of Adjaffi's voice. Although he shows a limited vocal range in "Revolution," Adjaffi is generally able to disguise his limitations by straining his voice...
...Government's legitimacy has broken down. The governed languish at the mercy of their leaders' kindness." Legal norms are a mere trifle to be pushed aside by an arrogant elite. Is Dartboard's intrepid correspondent sending back a frenzied dispatch from Rwanda? No, the crisis situation is centered in Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard, where the Undergraduate Council has unilaterally disqualified four out of five ballot questions .His Eminence, President and Grand Poobah Carey Gabay '94, Master of Peons and Terror of 12 Houses, through the unbounded benevolence of his magnanimous heart, has allowed a single question to remain, while chastising...
When fairies invade England's House of Lords, there's bound to be some disruption in the docket. The operetta, Iolanthe, brings nothing less than interracial marriage, capital punishment, and the class struggle into the stodgy chambers. Even more remarkably, it resolves these and other hefty issues in a mere two hours, all set a rapid-fire patter rhythm with a few love scenes tossed in to spice up the action. A little fairy magic sure does a lot for a body of government...
...stories are not, however, mere mimetic renditions of an unordered world, presented to readers as simple records of life. Although they generally are composed of plot and dialogue only, without narrative interpretation or explanation of the events they contain, Mr. McGahern says that they are not bereft of an attempt to answer questions, only that they are bereft of the actual answers. "I would think that all good writing makes suggestions," he says, advancing his definition of quality in literature, "and all bad writing gives answers. In that sense, the images comment...