Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sadly, the University's actions raise real questions about how much confidence alumni can have in the results of the balloting. Quite simply: how do we know they will not cheat? It is terribly simple to do so--ballots can be discarded, invalidated, remarked, and no one will ever know. A University Administration and Board of Overseers that have gone to such unprecedented lengths to influence the results of an election they are administering cannot be entrusted to tabulate the results of that election fairly. Should the AAA slate fail, I for one will never be fully convinced that...
...this score, Absolute Beginners is a pretty little cheat. It promises a larkish tour of London in 1958, the year Britain discovered both rock 'n' roll as an anarchic force and teenagers as a voracious new consumer class. Colin (Eddie O'Connell) is a bright lad who hits the Top 40 of success snapping pictures of mods and trads; Suzette (Patsy Kensit) is a proto-Twiggy fashion model- designer. Sade, Ray Davies and the snakily elegant David Bowie appear in elaborate production numbers--upmarket rock videos, really--and Julien Temple, a master director of the short music form, revs...
When the final curtain eventually comes down--in metaphor only, as the Kirkland JCR is not well-equiped theatrically--the audience is left with a sense of relief and sadness. One is relieved that the troubled play has concluded and has even provided a moral--"try and cheat the government and look what happens." However, one is also saddened by the realization that the Kirkland House production was pretty much doomed from the start. Given the uncohesive script, with its shoddily constructed plot and poorly developed characters, the present production deserves at least an "A" for effort...
Smith's research, conducted between 1969 and 1981, concludes that the adolescents who go on to drink, smoke and take drugs as teen-agers and young adults are usually impulsive, pessimistic, unambitious, extroverted and have poor study habits. They also admit a willingness to lie, cheat and hurt others...
Reagan replied with an anecdote of his own. He told of a Marcos election worker who had allegedly pitched a supply of Aquino ballots into a ditch, and he doubted aloud that anyone would try to cheat by doing that. Said the President: "If he was really trying to get away with fraud, you'd think he'd have burned those ballots...