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First, we must ask whether the council is the extracurricular joke many students perceive it to be. If not--if the council does achieve results--then we should ask what the council can do to align its image with its reality. In other words, what must it do to convince us that it is, in fact, a legitimate and worthwhile...
...order for the council to align its image with its capability, it must try harder to present itself as an organized body of dedicated students; it must pay less attention to politics and more attention to its self-stated activist goals: "to represent student interests; to secure an active role for students in deciding official policies...to foster and coordinate campus-wide social activities...to promote and fund student groups and organizations...and finally, to serve as a campus-wide forum for the expression and exchange of student ideas and opinions...
...Hollywood movies that will (if a play runs) surely follow. The surprise is that so many talented American playwrights--most of whom make their real money churning out screenplays--keep coming back to the stage, proving that theater can still, on those occasions when the stars and stage lights align, provide a magical experience...
...strategic victory was aided by retailers such as Wal-Mart, which swiftly marked down its cereals the day after the April announcement. Consumers began switching brands in droves. Don't wait for another round of cuts. True, General Mills--the No. 2 player, ahead of Post--is expected to align itself with the others. But barring growth, the industry could be forgoing about $1 billion in revenues. Any more would seriously hurt the bottom line. "We are still offering the best values in the cereal aisles," boasts Post Cereal boss Mark Leckie, reacting to the Kellogg's announcement...
...twice over in the divided, fragmented Knesset they elected to govern with Netanyahu. They gave no clear-cut mandate to any leaders, vesting large parliamentary powers in small parties whose priorities sometimes dovetail and sometimes contradict one another as well as the major parties with which they will align. So what will happen when narrow interests intersect with global diplomacy, when domestic divisions come into confrontation with international demands, when campaign promises clash? Instability, paralysis, even folly...