Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People should have listened on Friday not out of pity for Linkous's painful past however, but because of the talent they were fortunate to hear. His harsh personal experiences come across in the quiet desperation in his songs, but he does not whine. Instead, he crafts silvery plaintive ballads and shouts distortedly through loud, always oddly melodious numbers. Linkous does not aim to please. Like most uncompromising music, his is not instantly accessible, and Sparklehorse songs gain much from the attentive listening that many at the Middle East did not attempt. During "Junebug," a hushed, plaintive encore...
...drawn to the fast and easy life of his pampered friends--Bahar Richards, a rich bitch who spins friends into enemies almost as quickly as she spends money and Jake, her hot hunky brother, an architecture major at Franklin & Marshall, lean and tanned from working building sites all across the country. Drew feels like Bahar is part of his soul--he would do anything for her. And when it comes to Drew's romance with Jake--he just wants to do it. However, when the three join at the Richards' secluded home for a long weekend, brother and sister come...
...Across the board, advising is a crap shoot. Some lucky souls land the jackpot, scoring an assistant dean with time on her hands, but don't count on anything more than a confused graduate student. Research the labyrinthine academic bureaucracy for yourself and start thinking soon. At the end of your first year, you'll have to choose a concentration ("majors" are just too plebian...
While graduate students at Yale University have not experienced much success in their dealings with the administration, students at other schools across the nation have made great strides in improving their working conditions...
With the continuing dependence on graduate students for teaching in colleges and universities, it seems unlikely that graduate students will stop their fight anytime soon. As Mitchell indicated, the movement won't truly be a success until universities across the nation recognize the rights of all its workers...