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...Night on the Town, Hornsby has taken the familiar musical elements he introduced in his earlier work and produced a richer, more complex and more mature sound. The tinkly piano ballads like "Mandolin Rain" are, for the most part, absent from this album. Instead, Hornsby makes elaborate use of synthesizers and electric guitars to produce driving rockabilly tunes with appropriately cynical lyrics...
More than 4000 miles removed from this spring's nationally publicized inter-departmental controversy, Sociology Chair Aage B. Sorensen has remained absent--and so far neutral--in the dispute between his program and the Social Studies concentration...
Unable to maintain a quorum for the fourth straight week, the Undergraduate Council last night conducted its final meeting of the year with more than half its members absent, its officers acknowledging that the results were not technically binding...
Whether in his well-cut business suits or ceremonial skins and feathers, Buthelezi is the country's other black leader. When Mandela and De Klerk meet in Cape Town this week to debate obstacles to negotiations, Buthelezi will be conspicuously absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against...
...second largest. And typically, it is in deep trouble. Despite vigorous efforts by a strongly committed core of teachers and administrators, the school's vital indicators are startlingly bleak. The yearly 20% dropout rate is more than double the California average, and a quarter of the student body is absent on any given day. In reading and math, San Fernando seniors rank in the bottom 5% statewide...