Word: cues
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...confirmed last week that he will again be part of the ticket. Two weeks ago, James Carney and John Dickerson examined the Bush re-election strategy, noting that while the President would focus on the economy, he would never skip a chance to remind voters of his military leadership. Cue the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln...
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...term quickly approaches, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) is considering an overhaul of the existing course evaluation system. At present, the CUE evaluation guide is compiled from student-based analyses of their current course loads—an assessment of professors, workload and difficulty, among a number of criteria—in effort to provide prospective enrollees with a valuable tool when selecting classes. The CUE Guide’s full potential, however, is hardly being realized at the moment, and there are many revisions of the current system that the Committee should consider...
...same token, the Day of Silence originally arose out of an urgency totally alien to the BGLTSA’s rehearsal of that event. The Day of Silence takes its cue from ACT UP’s die-ins—which themselves were meant to illustrate the group’s brutal slogan, Silence=Death. When the Day of Silence came to college campuses in 1996, it sought to literalize the fatal silence surrounding the victims of hate crimes. In another decontextualization of a once-potent political action, the BGLTSA’s event re-defined silence...
...problem with evil dictators is they never seem to know when the time is right for a graceful climb-down. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad should have provided a strong visual cue to Kim Jong Il of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons-development program and come in from the cold. The message even appeared, briefly, to have been received when North Korea agreed in March to sit down for three days of preliminary talks with the U.S. and China in Beijing. But the dim hope that Kim had drawn "the appropriate lessons" from...