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More important, why does "experimental" theater deserve the University's exclusive support? Each director, actor, designer and producer has his own style of theater. If several name themselves "experimental," do they deserve exclusive claim to one of the finest technical theaters on campus...
...would the program guarantee every American a four-day-a-week job, Simon says, but it would also result in enough new tax revenue to balance the budget. He has repeatedly argued that, for every percentage point reduction in unemployment, the deficit falls by $30 billion. While appealing, this claim is really just a way to avoid discussing hard political choices, such as a tax increase...
...Center Northwest and author of Unmasking the New Age, raises a similar objection. "Once you've deified yourself," he says, "which is what the New Age is all about, there is no higher moral absolute. It's a recipe for ethical anarchy. I see it as a counterfeit religious claim. It's both messianic and millennial...
...pack of 3-ft.-high "visitors." When they proposed sticking a needle into his brain, he recalls, one of them casually asked him, "What can we do to help you stop screaming?" More scare stories came from Intruders by Budd Hopkins, a chronicle of 130 people who claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrial visitors and tell tales of being subjected to various degrading medical experiments. On the other hand, the extraterrestrials who turn up in the course of channeling -- one of the most popular New Age sports -- appear almost unfailingly wise and benevolent...
...that makes no bones about his star status is Beerbarker Spuds, whose muzzle appears on some 200 items, including T shirts, coffee mugs and posters. He has already filmed ten Bud Light commercials and has another upcoming. On Dec. 8 he or she -- some claim that Spuds is actually a female whose real name is Evie -- will be a guest veejay on MTV and early next year will appear in a supporting role in Robert Downey's new movie Rented Lips. "He wasn't playing Hamlet, but Spuds was perfect on the first take every time," says Film Producer Mort...