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...days. No deans have been publicly identified as perpetrators of that schedule: they did get rather nasty press on those kiosks, remember? This time, CHUL students (most of whom never got to vote or even express an opinion on the new schedule) shoulder the blame. The effect: Divide and Conquer. Student shuttle drivers vs. students on CHUL; female students requiring the greater security of the new nighttime schedule vs. students attending church on Sunday mornings...
...book and movie The Boys from Brazil, a demented Nazi doctor uses blood and tissue cells from Adolf Hitler to clone dozens of copies of the German dictator in the hope that at least one of them will seize power and conquer the world. Though the cloning of human beings is likely to be confined to fantasy for decades-perhaps forever-other kinds of cloning have long been possible. The Greek word klon means twig, and the simplest kind of vegetable cloning consists of cultivating cuttings from a plant. By the mid-1950s scientists had succeeded in cloning amphibians, producing...
...show's most touching number, "Thank Heaven for You", Everett Gibson, a solid tenor whose voice fills the theater with a marvelous operatic resonance, and Cheryl Coston, a petite soprano with a versatility that can conquer both ballads and jazzy scat-singing, perform a coppella love song that showcases the two most distinctive vocalists in a singer's show. Gibson and Coston dominate throughout, invigorating their songs with a range of expression that many of the other more static soloists lack. Although the choreography is both graceful and jazzy, the frozen and unnecessary presense of several non-singing...
...dress and cook, shake hands, argue with a colleague, plead with a lover, break things, break up, make up, attack, escape or withdraw. In each "free" action, he is replaying the history of the race as stage-managed by an eons-old brain that wants simply to survive and conquer...
...through the walls of bars to prove their machismo. The theme of the new Mercury campaign is the automaker's battle with foreign competition. In each commercial, the lynx, lured by an unseen pan of beefsteak, leaps atop a huge globe and symbolizes a sleek survivor that will conquer the world. Says Manny Perez, who produced the commercials: "The animal pushes the right emotional buttons in the viewers' minds...