Word: chris
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Congratulations! Chris Farley, for your sobering and insightful essay on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (Crimson, Jan. 22). Undoubtedly, your statements may shock the sensibilities of many, who would rather ignore the racial problems that still remain in this country. Despite the progress that has been made, racism is all too pervasive in the U.S., and the economic and social inequalities that separate Blacks and whites are staggering. Too many Americans, intoxicated with their own self-righteousness, choose to wave their flags in the face of racism and listen to the man (Ronald Reagan) who twists the words...
...shut down the Firing Line--minus sophomore forward Lane MacDonald who, with defender Chris Biotti, played for the U.S. Junior National team over the Christmas break--and limited the Killer B's (Bourbeau and Barakett) to the two early goals...
...back halls of the Capitol, Gramm-Rudman brought hoots of derision from staffers. "Today we begin Government by Veg-O-Matic," declared Chris Matthews, a top aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill, sardonically referring to the kitchen device once hawked on late-night TV ("It slices! It dices! It really, really works!"). On the floor, some prominent legislators were scornful. Gramm-Rudman, huffed Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, "is just about the dumbest piece of legislation I have seen in my 15 years on Capitol Hill." O'Neill himself warned, "Wait until...
Late one Dec. 24, a boy finds a train stopped outside his house. A conductor beckons him aboard. It is the first of many astonishments in The Polar Express + by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Other surprises include club cars full of similarly dazed children in pajamas and nightgowns, woods full of wolves and, finally, the frozen sea of the polar ice cap--Santa Claus country. Van Allsburg has given the commonplace a legendary air, and the boy's return seems every bit as gilded as the elves, Santa's airborne sled and the homeward-bound express train, with...
From that moment, I began to do a little research of my own--with some unsettling finds. I started by investigating the man himself. FBI files show that there is no "Santa Claus" living anywhere in North America. The one "Chris Cringle" I was able to locate is an inmate in a Flat Pig, Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO...