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...done to alleviate it. This is the worst sort of mentality, the resistance to change for the better. It is not worth detailing his many awful statements (such as calling the proposed multicultural student center a "cage"), but suffice to say that his do-nothing attitude reflected a bent uninterested in solving any problems, of working toward anything better than the present, and in this regard it was a step removed from the position of Epps--a long step...
...knowledge of Saxo Grammaticus, one of Shakespeare's main sources for Hamlet, in which Hamlet Senior is more a demon than a shade, Branagh plays up Hamlet's first meeting with his father after his death like a campy horror film. Hamlet runs, panting, through a forest of wind-bent trees, while smoke bellows out of the ground seemingly due to talkative dry ice--the disembodied voice of King Hamlet...
...officials said they've worked hard to attract a broad range of speakers, thereby negating past charges by Republicans that the seminar has a distinct leftist bent...
...candidates, her views are most compatible with the liberal bent of most students on campus, Rawlins said...
...didn't smoke much dope in the '60s. Pot sent me into giggling fits, and I feared the loss of control. My addiction was alcohol, which was approved by the same Establishment that was bent on criminalizing marijuana. My kids saw that, and they developed an acute sensitivity to hypocrisy. It took me many years to stop drinking and live without such addictions. When I did, that was a better lesson than any words I could have preached to them...