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...more serious issues. Jake (Will Minton) and Mickey (Brent Johnstone) are two soldiers who tell jokes to ease the pressure of working their way across a mine field. Minton and Johnstone strike just the right balance between comedy and tragedy, making the audience alternately titter with nervous laughter and cling to their seats in anticipation of doom...
Every Saturday night, at the Dedham Hilton's adult singles party, organized by radio personality Dick Syatt, people from vastly different generations cling to the hope of finding a companion...
DEAN OF the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles often tells his colleagues the story of a Russian sentry ordered to stand over the spot where Empress Catherine saw a snowdrop budding years before. The moral: Faculty members shouldn't cling unnecessarily to past traditions. They need to look ahead for ways to cut down spending and reduce the budget deficit...
...still want to cling to the simplistic old formulas that equated draft avoidance with cowardice, or treated any deviation from sexual propriety as not just a mistake but a crime...
Another reason undoubtedly is campaign politics. As those bumper stickers symbolize, the glow of victory in the gulf war has faded faster than the yellow ribbons that still cling to trees here and there; it no longer ! distracts voters from their worries about the recession. And as long as Saddam maintains his bloody totalitarian rule, efforts by Bush and his campaigners to revive memories of the glorious triumph are likely to ring false to many voters. Pat Buchanan and the Democrats can claim, misleadingly but perhaps effectively, that Desert Storm won at best a hollow victory...