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...prime example is "Strangelove." The song begins with a rousing synthesized beat and dives right into such glum, semi-introspective lyrics as "I give in to sin because I like to practice what I preach." If you listen to Depeche Mode over and over again without ever listening to the lyrics (I highly recommend this), they sound like the perfect band. But when you take your ears off cruise control, what you're hearing are songs of two varieties: pretentious self-loathing and nasty love stories. Verdict: great sound, questionable lyrics...
...Sister" or her turn as a homeless angel on everybody's favorite teen-angst drama My So-Called Life, Juliana was a pervasive presence on the airwaves. Add in hot rumors about her relationship with cuter-than-thou Lemonhead Evan Dando and also her supposed virginity, and Juliana was prime Kurt Loder fodder...
...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
...latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best to link them: "If you were heartbroken when that young man was killed, if you were elated by the fact that these two people -- Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman Arafat -- were able to reach across this great divide... that means you know that we can't define our future by putting people down," he told a Bel Air fund-raiser Saturday...