Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side from using "The New UC" for ego trips and political games, the extremists repeatedly thwarted attempts of other members to foster a sense of community on campus. If you can remember any council activity this year--like comedy concerts, Thanksgiving airport shuttles, Yale football tailgates or Springfest--chances are that the campus life committee planned it. While the rest of the council passed meaningless resolutions, it did all the hard work...
...think it's ridiculous that the council is being held hostage by one person's ego," said William E. Rehling...
Self-conscious? Stupak? Even in Vegas, city of naked, naive ambition, where the gods Whim and Ego bestride the Strip and hubris is just Greek for chutzpah, Stupak is a figure of such bejeweled swagger that confessing a nightmare of disaster-movie proportions can seem like a boast. The dream speaks to the compulsive gambler's fear of winning what he most desires, while planning even gaudier schemes. "Tell your editors that I'll donate $1 million to their favorite charity," he barks at a Time reporter, "if they put my picture on the corner of the cover. Two million...
...tell if Gritz has the credibility to bring the Freemen out," says TIME's Patrick Dawson. "The Freemen live in their own little world, isolated in their own milieu. Randy Weaver might have what it takes to convince the Freemen to come out, but Gritz has a huge, monumental ego and a sense of destiny. He's there for the publicity, and I don't think he's going to have much luck changing their minds.. There are a lot of right-wingers drifting into town, trying to be on hand for the making of history...
Perhaps you've heard of this movie's alter-ego, "A Clockwork Orange," which turns 25-years-old this year. The similarities between these films are uncanny: both are British and are filled with incomprehensible English accents; both are about psychopaths who are caught and sent to institutions; both protagonists are selected for an new treatment that will make them change their ways; and both criminals soon revert to their old ways after being released. The movies even have similar first-person narration styles and musical scores...