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...cannot, in good conscience, simply urge the student body to abstain from voting. Simply to abandon this great democratic experiment, even under the most tempting of circumstances, would be a grave mistake...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Vote Yes on Referenda | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Feeling Sinister" and then go to the library and check out "Sloop John B." from Pet Sounds. Such musical similarities can't be a coincidence, considering the thematic overlap between, for example, Pet Sounds and If You're Feeling Sinister. In the former, a boy goes from youthful abandon to mature disenchantment over the course of the album; in the latter those themes are visited in each song...

Author: By By BEN E. lytal, | Title: Genrecide; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beach Boys | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Alas, they do not know the iron law of history that says bad coffee fuels expansionism, machismo and the warlike passions while good coffee wafts with civility, pacificity and abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...pedestrian as book-buyers' motivations may seem, the recent proliferation of biographies shows that biographers today are indeed playing with the conception of biography as a genre. In Sarte's novel, Roquentin's struggles with this problem led him to abandon his biography. Those who persevere and finish a biography have made many choices along the way that are vital in determining what sort of biography will emerge. These questions can be divided into two categories: how the author obtains and interprets the sources concerning the subject, and exactly how the subject is defined...

Author: By Erik Beach, | Title: Biography: What Is It? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...else, for example, did South Africa, Brazil and Argentina abandon their nuclear-weapons programs; or Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine return nuclear weapons to Russia after gaining independence; or China decide to sign the CTBT; or India and Pakistan agree, in principle, to do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call for American Consensus | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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