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...police pushed the crowd back with nightsticks, some demonstrators fought with the officers. Snowballs thrown by people in the crowd broke two windows, sending pieces of glass into the building's lobby. During one scuffle, an officer pulled a tuff of hair out of a man's scalp and dropped it on the ground. Another man pushed the officer and was promptly arrested...
...whether or not that musical talent belongs to Vanilla or Milli Vanilli or someone never mentioned, is irrelevant. Because on that CD or tape, the sound you hear is the sound you get. Deception gets artists "in the door"--talent keeps them from getting thrown...
...society. The staff is realistic in its expectations: there are virtually no rules about coming and going, and though drugs and alcohol are strongly discouraged, their use is not grounds for eviction. Persuasion rather than coercion is the rule. Unless a client is unmanageable, he will never be thrown back onto the street. Says Nielsen: "El Rey is a place where some people can live indefinitely if they choose...
...department's least convincing argument supporting the greater emphasis on British literature states simply that it is of a higher quality. Such a position would probably be thrown out on a campus where the British scholars did not so overwhelmingly outnumber their American counterparts, but to pretend that literature is evaluated or prized by its "artistic value" alone is smug and ignorant. Shelley called poets "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Literature establishes a dialogue of ideas, and is therefore an inherently political act. Writers frequently use whatever they consider as the political, social, or structural subtext of their contemporaries...
...current enthusiasm for environmentalism. Books in Print lists roughly 6,000 titles in 50 subject categories related to the environment, and the number grows by dozens each month. With so many choices, would-be environmentalists are understandably bewildered. Which books are worth reading, and which were thrown together merely to exploit...