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...every tempo, the sad soul of it as well as the brash, brassy swing. Or maybe his need to graft his life onto every song he sang was an unintended effect of his artistry, a scramble to find personal corollaries for every melody he molded, every lyric he bent to his own will and purpose...
...kill you--everyone, that is, but tobacco executives themselves! In 1996 they raised their nicotine-stained right hands before Congress and pleaded ignorance, a perjury charge Ken Starr could get his teeth into, if only he were not already representing these guys. When subpoenaed documents revealed an industry hell-bent on hooking kids, even tobacco's core congressional defenders blanched. Gingrich vowed he would be tougher than the President. The McCain bill, which raises the price of cigarettes to reduce teen smoking, sailed through the Senate Commerce Committee...
Best Student. This student doesn't cheat; he just knows the College's academic rules, including which ones can be bent. He does little work, is perpetually late with the little he actually does, and still manages to pull...
What has Goliath so worried? Some of Lessig's past writings could be interpreted to suggest he might have an interventionist bent. But those who know him say Lessig is not so easily pigeonholed. For example, Lessig lost a lot of friends in the computer community when he argued against their push to establish a software standard for filtering pornographic images. Such software, he argued, limits the speech of its users without their even knowing it--a result nearly as pernicious as direct government censorship. It was an interesting insight, and many legal scholars were looking forward to hearing what...
...growth of Harlan's personality to fit the huge shoes of her narrative voice is Jones's great accomplishment in The Healing. The stylistic design optimally supports the narrative's broad theme of constructing a personal identity in a world bent on its destruction. At one point, Jones encapsulates this quest for self by retelling the biography of Grandmother Jaboti, Harlan's ancestral precursor in the art of identity building. Jaboti began her life not as a human but as a turtle-woman in a traveling carnival freak show, kept on display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl...