Word: echo
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...case seems a pale echo of the fiery debates over diversity in the early '90s, when, for example, a Harvard student erected a swastika to protest a classmate's Confederate flag. Today, says UCLA director of residential life Alan Hanson, "multiculturalism isn't really a hot topic." But the growth of religious conservatism could rekindle the flames. "Today you have a larger interest among students in religion, whether it's Orthodox Judaism or...Fundamentalist Christianity," says David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education. One survey indicates that half of freshmen identify themselves as Protestant, up from a third...
...House of Windsor, we must trust that those advising the royal family at this unhappy time will also be blunt. The national outpouring of affection and grief for the "people's princess" could be dismissed as a form of collective hysteria that will die away as surely as the echo of muffled funeral bells. No tumbrels loom for a monarchy that still figures centrally in the British psyche and way of life. But if the monarchy is to survive and thrive in the new millennium, it will be because it has listened to its subjects and responded, not with mere...
Glazer's video for Jamiroquai is less flashy but nonetheless eye catching. The band is mostly unknown in the States; its current album, Traveling Without Moving, is a mere echo of stronger, tighter, better American R. and B. from the '70s. Virtual Insanity, a rant against technology that draws heavily, if not entirely successfully, on Stevie Wonder for musical inspiration, is the only truly catchy song on the album. In the video we see Jamiroquai's singer, Jay Kay, standing alone in a mostly empty room. The floor seems to move as he dances, sings and poses; furniture appears...
Less than 12 hours before his big announcement, nobody here knows yet about the bombshell to come. In fact, Jobs is still negotiating it here at the Castle--on a cell phone. "Hi, Bill," you hear him say in the echo chamber of the old hall. Then his voice drops, and for nearly an hour he paces the stage, running through last-minute details with Gates. All the while, he leans over his computer, paces, lies down on the stage, paces, lurks in dark corners, paces and talks, paces and talks...
...Land scans like an Eastern Western: High Noon without the clock, or a Shane in which the hero is the homesteader (played by Van Heflin, whose name has an echo in Freddy's). "I wanted to make a simple morality play," says James Mangold, 33, the writer-director whose only previous feature was the low-budget love story Heavy but who manages the complex story and big-name cast with a veteran's assurance. Mangold grew up in a blue-collar town near West Point, up the Hudson from the film's fictional Garrison, N.J. It was filled with "cops...