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Artifacts inside the bandies layer include the biggest tuba in the world, a bass drum named Bertha, as well as pictures of past bands and a number of "borrowed" sings...
...advertisement--looking suspiciously like a news feature--explaining how the PC thought police was preventing academic debate about the Holocaust's non-existence, how the photographs, documents and eyewitness accounts proving the obvious in fact prove nothing, how "Zionists and others in the Jewish community" whose "purpose was to drum up world sympathy and political and financial support for Jewish causes" had led "a conspiracy to suppress the truth...
...Luck chronicles the rise of David Beeves (Tom Hopkins), a hard-working but undistinguished mechanic who achieves remarkable success as a result of events which he considers as a result of events which he considers merely lucky. For instance, David managers to sell an extra drum of kerosene as a result of a late cold spell...
...cheerleader won the election. And he has an idea that he thinks will help improve the UC's campus reputation. (Funny, the team leader had the same idea.) He wants to create the position of--drum roll, please--UC public relations officer! Basically, this unfortunate soul will have to read every issue of the Salient, the Perspective, the Independent and The Crimson, then organize official council responses to any implications that the council is anything but a paragon of streamlined efficiency, financial acumen, selfless diligence and conscientious responsiveness to the popular will...
...admirable and largely unappreciated degree, the CIA has managed to preserve a tradition of intellectual freedom. During the McCarthy period in the '50s, when red-baiting Congressmen were able to drum out of the State Department Foreign Service officers who were insufficiently passionate in their anticommunism, the agency used its special claim to secrecy to make itself a sanctuary for independent-minded experts...