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...like this year's "Great Grape Debate," in which student activists tried in vain to continue a University-wide boycott on grapes, the food conservation program failed to muster University support, forcing students to abandon plans to influence the world with their dinner plates...
That left Christman in a bind. "The annulment meant there was no marriage," he says. Army lawyers told him to abandon his efforts to expel the couple. "Since, following the annulment, no marriage ever existed legally," he says, "we felt strongly we couldn't sustain the separation." Army officials say the two were punished, short of expulsion, although they decline to offer details or identify the couple. Through an Army spokesman, the pair declined to be interviewed...
...sustained note so that it hits a dramatic sweet spot, Marsalis' trumpet is particularly voicelike in its expressiveness--for him, a "with strings" outing is almost a natural. At times Robert Freedman's arrangements buoy him tastefully; at others they egg the normally cerebral player on to romantic abandon. It's the best sort of marriage between pop warmth and jazz brains...
...watch on Family Matters began a few weeks after its debut in September 1989, when the show's ostensible stars, the Winslow family, were visited by the kid next door, a nasal-voiced geek with huge glasses, pants hiked to his armpits and unflagging enthusiasm. Played with Jerry Lewis abandon by Jaleel White, the character caught on with audiences and quickly pulled a Fonzie, taking over the series. As years went on, the show grew increasingly outlandish. White--now well into adolescence and towering over actors he once looked up to, his high-pitched whine making him sound less like...
...message seriously, because for months they had been hearing the same thing, and worse, from an even more indisputable source: James Dobson, the country's most powerful representative of conservative Christianity. Dobson, a psychologist and radio host who heads Focus on the Family, threatened earlier this year to abandon the Republican Party and form his own organization, taking with him some of the 28 million people who follow his broadcasts every week. In panicked response, G.O.P. leaders have moved away sharply from the do-little approach that has characterized Congress's deliberations since last summer in favor of an agenda...