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...Kerry said he would reserve the right to take unilateral action in defense of the U.S. but that any such action should pass a "global test" to be viewed as legitimate. That is hardly a new doctrine. Our Declaration of Independence refers to "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" and says, "let Facts be submitted to a candid world." Republicans have been quick to rephrase Kerry's statements to imply that he would defer to the U.N. or get an O.K. from France. But even Bush submitted his rationale for the Iraq war to world opinion. Unfortunately...
...always astonishing new music being made, somewhere, by someone - and it could be someone like me. In late 1971, John saw Roxy Music, the band I was in at the time, play a small gig and asked us to guest on his radio show. As a result, we had decent recordings of six of our songs, and it was those recordings that eventually got us a record deal. John's job wasn't the easiest. He spent his life diligently sifting through sackfuls of tapes that people sent and combing the obscure sections of obscure record shops...
...bind them closer together. They speak of their beginnings now like war veterans. Klein calls the first show “a formative moment. Everybody came together.” Knowing what they were up against, the band members redoubled their commitment to the group, vowing to procure some decent equipment and to rehearse more often and more intensely...
Needless to say, this athletic association didn’t exactly elevate my Big Man on Campus status in a way that I first thought it would. Neither did playing lacrosse—a sport I was actually decent at—since we had to listen to a coach who once spent an entire practice arguing with five guys about the benefits of a Marxist-Leninist style of socialism and led us to a four-win season my junior year. Being a jock wasn’t exactly a ticket to social acceptance. To say the least, it took...
...endowment of any university, retooling Hilles Library into dance studios no one will use is infinitely more important than providing arenas the administration hopes no one will ever want to fill, and building campus hot spots like Loker Commons will always take precedent over a football stadium with a decent place to tailgate...