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Watson said she does not think moving Jordan residents’ lottery numbers up by one point per semester is too drastic a change. She cited a policy in Quincy House that gives residents of Old Quincy lottery preference over residents of New Quincy...
Marian H. Smith ’04 auditioned because she liked the show from previous years, and says she isn’t doing anything drastic to prepare for the show. Her words of advice for the audience: “the drunker you are, the better we look.” Vida C. Harvey ‘04, a member of Expressions as well an Eleganza model, says that her practice for the dance show, held last weekend, did more than enough to keep her in shape for the event, while Erika M. Jungblut...
...Middle East crisis is a mess of a war that will probably drag on for centuries unless we take drastic diplomatic steps. Besides looking at the complex historical causes for the bloodshed, consider the present situation: each time one side attacks, the other retaliates on a greater scale. One side needs to refrain from reacting when provoked. Such a course seems simple, but when we look at the desire for revenge we in the U.S. felt after Sept. 11, we can understand that it is no small feat to accomplish. CHARLES HAILER Boston...
...Fromme (Julie Goldin) to the absent Jodie Foster and Charles Manson is musically the most beautiful number in the show, and their voices resonate with passion and fervor. Yet it is actually a song about obsession, control and the desire of two unbalanced individuals to do something tragically drastic to prove their love. Hosfield and Goldin play it totally straight, refraining from descending into caricature, rendering “Unworthy of Your Love” a powerful piece and leaving it entirely to the audience to discern the irony...
...past few years, the U.S. tax system has started to play Robin Hood in reverse. The availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy—or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...