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...last few weeks, the staff of Annenberg Hall has been cracking down on students taking food to go. First-years attempting to take a sandwich out of the hall are being reprimanded and even asked to abandon their lunch at the door...
...Some students might argue that they chose to remain with their old roommates because they knew what it was like to live with them. But this excuse becomes weak when we consider that most students who abandon their original roommates would give exactly the same reason. Others might claim inertia, but since when do students around here do things out of laziness...
...there are some problems with Cotton's formulation. For one, nowhere does Habermas say that we should abandon elected government. As he writes in "Further Reflections on the Public Sphere," "Discourses do not govern. They generate a communicative power that cannot take the place of administration, but can only influence it. This influence is limited to procurement and withdrawal of legitimation. Communicative power cannot supply a substitute for the systematic inner logic of public bureaucracies" (in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun...
...right to worry. Hollywood anoints these new young stars with alarming frequency, and can abandon them just as fast when they stumble. But for the moment, there's not much time left for Damon to consider such questions. He's too busy. He just turned down an offer to star in the next film by Ang Lee, who directed the Oscar-nominated Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. That was so he could do the next film from the Oscar-winning director of The English Patient, Anthony Minghella. Damon will play the title role in The Talented Mr. Ripley...
Although Linden often runs the ball courageously and with the abandon of a 300-pound John Elway, his ability to remain mobile in the pocket and make the offensive line block to his advantage have opened up his passing game...