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Lubbock leaders have also taken steps to stamp out "the mark of the beast"--three Greek letters sigma in sequence (tough luck, advanced calculus students), three sixes or three F's. ("Note that the letter `F' is the sixth letter of the alphabet...
...that a boyhood friend has been signed to create the most dreadful monster in film history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that begins to haunt the Brown Derby restaurant? And the performer who has played Jesus Christ in movies for 25 years: Is he an actor or an authentic Saviour? Are they all characters in someone else's movie...
...profound and icy mistrust which the German arouses whenever he gets any power into his hands is the aftermath of that vast horrible fear with which, for long centuries, Europe dreaded the wrath of the Teutonic blond beast...
...staff. "They should do a better job of teaching constitutional law at the Naval Academy," he said, noting that Army General Colin Powell successfully held the job after Poindexter and that retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft has the position now. When the picture of the Iran-contra beast is finally drawn, in all probability it will not be as large or menacing as many thought. Yet the portrait will never be complete. These days in the muted luncheon- table conversations among both prosecutors and defense-team members, there is the acknowledgment that the one man who really...
...Core truly represented a "core" of knowledge that the University expected every student to learn. But it doesn't. The Core is littered with narrow, esoteric offerings such as "Monuments of Japan," "The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court," and "Beast Literature." Although these areas of scholarship are surely important in their own right, they defy any common notions of what a "core" education should comprise. And they make poor excuses for forcing hundreds of students to crowd into one class in order to fulfill a requirement...