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...fellow graduate students, far from absorbing these radical thinkers, ran off after dull, pedantic European poststructuralists, who were trapped in cynical semantic mindgames that my generation had ditched when we substituted Elvis Presley for gloom and doom Samuel Beckett. Despite their inflated reputations, none of the French theorists, including Foucaults, is competent at speculation about either history or sexuality. Those who claim otherwise are naively credulous or uninformed...
...care and nurturing? Not so fast. As one who has lived in California all my life, I have been somewhat amused by the recent outpouring of sympathy for my home state. And I'm inclined to be a little skeptical about both these outpourings and the prognostications of doom that are regularly raining down on California...
...Catamounts managed only one substantial run the entire game. Beginning at 14:09, they began a three-minute, 17-5 run, narrowing the deficit to 14 points, 61-47. Benton never got into a rhythm, however, and his cold shooting spelled doom for Vermont...
...that the recession is far enough in the past that the threat to people who have hung onto their jobs is over; they can unzip their wallets. Richard Outcalt, president of Seattle-based Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent and "professional shopper," declares, "I'm fed up with the recession." In the past few years, she says...
...brother, his court, and his kingdom in general. With the ambitious militarist Mortimer, Isabella jealously plots Gaveston's banishment and eventual murder. Edward II winds up imprisoned and miserable, failed in his capacities as ruler and husband and deprived of the one human being he ever loved. Passion. Violence. Doom...