Word: crews
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FROM the Nazis in Skokie to Hustler magazine's Larry Flynt to 2 Live Crew in Florida, it has been an unfortunate fact of American life that those on the ideological fringe end up having to fight society's First Amendment battles...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an American literature professor at Duke University, is well-known for a series of editorial pieces he wrote concerning the lyrics of 2 Live Crew, a rap band recently acquitted of obscenty charges in Florida. Their album, "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" tells of the unnatural sexual prowess of the band's members and the irrepressible urge of every "bitch" to throw off all inhibition and consent. (This is the PG-13 exposition of their lyrics; if you want the "Henry and June" mix, buy the album...
...result is that Saturn has attracted a younger, more entrepreneurial crew / than other GM divisions. The average age of a Saturn worker is 38, vs. 43 for the whole company. Saturn's work force is 20% female, slightly higher than the portion at GM as a whole. Many workers say they were drawn by the prospect that Saturn could compete on an equal footing. "The thing that most interested me was the idea that we could beat the Japanese. That's why I came here," says James Archibald, 34, a line worker in body fabrication, who pulled up stakes...
...Usually the crew shells are used to our sailing races and know what to do," Bowers said. "But because of all of the out-of-town boats on the river, rowers expected us to steer away and there were a few too many close calls...
Harvard was helped by a third-place finish in the B-division, as John Dickson paired with freshman crew Tanya Clement for the first time. Paul Sabin notched first place in the C-division, demonstrating the depth of this year's squad...