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Empires, as they say, are fragile human creations that wither in the face of inevitability. The treacherous deceit of invincibility, which allows said empires a brief illusion of immortality, only leads to ruin when weaknesses in an empire become palpable pillars of harsh reality...
Petersen used his brief minutes on stage to stress students’ struggles to become active decision-makers in the face of “limitations from above...
...herself—who emerged from the Castle on an eight-person bicycle—who was taken, literally, on the wildest ride of all. Friday’s event, advertised as a “presentation” to students over e-mail lists, featured a series of brief appearances by singer-songwriter Spektor before a crowd of students eager to hear her perform at the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. At 8:15 p.m., two hours after she had been scheduled to appear, Spektor emerged...
...songs rarely strayed from studio versions (again, perhaps a nod to new fans in search of something fresh yet familiar), which actually wasn’t a negative. Berninger’s conversational singing style, an evocative baritone, suited the space well, as did his brief suspensions of composure, as when he casually threw his mic-stand backstage on the last song...
...people, ought to have been more circumspect in trumpeting his plans to reform the vociferous court. His ambitions have so far been in vain. The warring factions of the Roberts court--and their pocked and smoking battlefields--have made his talk of self-effacing harmony seem obsolete. After a brief honeymoon of unanimous opinions in obscure cases, it is the same four Justices on the right and the same four on the left in one high-profile case after another, with Kennedy determining the law. Bombast, rhetorical excess and dueling opinions are thick as Pompeian...