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After this year, Cornell officials will review the plan to see if it has succeeded in attracting the most desired students. Scannell said. If it has not, or if cuts in federal aid do not continue. Cornell may then adopt a new policy, he added...
...many broken people have you seen around the House lately? No, not mentally broken people, not people who adopt English accents but recalls broken ones. The poor bastards hobbling on crutches and bald armpits because they twisted their ankle or broke their knee or something like that...
DIRECT EXPERIENCE seems a more exciting source of images in the poems. When talking in her own voice. Harris tends to adopt interesting word combinations and compound words: "broomhandle-killing/that squirrel, carstunned and lost" she writes in "Manhattan As A Second Language." Asides in poetry are always dangerous, but when Harris writes in the first person she deals successfully with complex, convoluted images without losing the thread of her poetry. In "The Coddling Moth," she successfully creates a complicated, sensual comparison between a man and a moth, follows the moth into an apple grove, and leaps to agricultural science...
Hanna Schygulla as his lover is as enigmatic as ever, replacing her, more familiar vamping with a staunch mother figure. An evidently barren woman who has inexplicably taken Lebanon as her own country, her sole desire is to adopt a native child. Yet she evokes no more sympathy exudes no more warmth than Laschen. In fact, while Laschen becomes increasingly anesthetized by the violence she remains consistently numb...
...plans if his party gains power. We will win the military fight. First we will adopt a revolutionary constitution with articles that will give us the force of law to deal with the state of crisis that we are living in now. Right now we are fighting blindfolded, and with treason in certain government spheres. Once we have good military intelligence and a government that does not give cover to subversives, we can go ahead...