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...plea that pulses behind the multitude of voices is one that urges us against the way we avert our eyes and close our ears. It urges us to abandon the opaque tunnels down which we race so blindly, so deafly. It urges us against the coward's impulse to step lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward...
Competition from low-cost, entrepreneurial private schools will pressure public institutions to abandon such inefficiencies as the tenure system. They will also give up the 10-month school year, a relic of the time when students had to do farm work in summertime. Year-round schooling is a more efficient use of resources; summer breaks tend to make the first and last months of the term virtually useless anyway...
Some English professors believe students shouldn't write these for the wrong reasons. The department sent seniors writing theses a letter this fall listing a number of reasons to abandon their research plans...
DOES GEORGE BUSH BELIEVE IN ANYTHING SO DEEPLY that he would rather lose the election than abandon that principle? To hear the President before the Knights of Columbus on Aug. 5, his opposition to abortion passes the test: "I promise you again today, no matter the political price -- and they tell me in this year that it's enormous -- I am going . . .to stand on my conscience when it comes to matters of life." Since then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded...
...National Opera's untraditional lead soprano, presents a sumptuous assortment of operatic arias on DIVA! A SOPRANO AT THE MOVIES. Her finely colored voice with its firm vibrato is not elitist, and she sings this collection of songs that have made their way into films with a passion and abandon that would make Madonna envious. Garrett's plaintive Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, and her flirtatious plotting in Quando m'en vo, from La Boheme, are the answer for those looking for substance in their tunes...