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More students voted in last week's Great Grape Referendum than in last year's Undergraduate Council presidential and vice-presidential elections, 50 percent to 43 percent. Whether to take this as an indication of greater student ardor over grapes or greater apathy toward the council is up for debate...
Over the years, no rivalry has existed between the two nations. Only during the War of 1812--when U.S. forces bungled an invasion of Canada--and the epic clash of 1993--when Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams bungled several attempts to check the Blue Jays lineup--has any semblance of ardor spiced things...
...Storm is still a significant achievement: movies rarely create a world this lifelike and treat the past with such devastating honesty. Lee deconstructs family relationships and social unease with as much ardor as he amplified the joyous heart of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. One wishes, though, for some greater redemption to fully flesh out the lives of its characters. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
...Bill Clinton, predictably, loves ostensibly family-friendly software filters), has agreed to use rating systems in the next version of its browser. Even news organizations, whose free-speech obsession borders on the fanatic, are rating themselves (see THE NETLY NEWS). The Webmasters' private initiative, though, may not cool legislative ardor for rewriting the CDA. Neither filtering software nor self-rating is sufficient to clean up the Net, in the view of Senator Dan Coats of Indiana. Filters are "a good first step," he says, but "it's a tax on the family--the innocent family." Of course, the same could...
...that lacked much cohesion of thought between the soloist and orchestra, Zacharias dove into the finale with visible enthusiasm. He slammed his powerful left hand into the bass line during at least two tuttis, and practically cued the cellos himself during the recapitulation. He pushed every beat with an ardor that made up for his interpretation's lack of spaciousness...