Word: bandness
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...Aboriginal society. Since a searing official report on the practice appeared in 1997, Australia's six state governments have made apologies. But Rudd's speech, in its repeated use of the word sorry, had the immediate effect of easing white guilt and softening Aboriginal pain. Previous governments took "a Band-Aid approach" to problems in the Aboriginal community such as ill-health, poor education and alcoholism "by using money to try and fix it," says Uniting Church minister Sealin Garlett. "Today the government has focused on the spirit...
...often, though, the Academy has rewarded films at the high end of mediocrity, operating within a narrow band of reassuring realism. They're called "movies of quality," which really means movies of piety--stories of cozy spiritual uplift (Mrs. Miniver, Going My Way) or, more recently, of superior damaged creatures (Rain Man, A Beautiful Mind). And they're often chosen over edgier fare. Thus, in 1977 the softhearted Rocky beat four superior films (All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network and Taxi Driver), and in 1982 another inspirational sports movie, Chariots of Fire, won out over Reds...
...Perhaps brooding on these issues has simply made Harvard women unfit for company. Instead of going on dates, even group dates, they band together to produce the Vagina Monologues. A college that can supply 30 women to perform and 100 to attend the Vagina Monologues on Valentine’s Day night is a college without a dating scene...
...Kamber D. Vittori ’08 and Kenton J. Hetrick ’07 were brought together two and a half years ago through the Harvard University Band, proving that music is indeed the food of love. Now they’re playing a different tune: the Wedding March...
...Just finished the National Anthem. The BU band is being conducted by a bald man who looks very much like "Deal or No Deal" host Howie Mandel...