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Stephanie J. Brinton ’10 and Lindsey M. Parker ’10 are the kind of made-for-each-other couple that inspires equal parts exasperation and admiration from their single peers. A boyfriend and girlfriend matched in height and sunny dispositions, they demonstrate a discreet, natural sort of affection in public—often trading conspiratorial smiles or finishing each other’s sentences...
...should hold hearings at the beginning of the year, to assess just how miserable each House’s inhabitants really are, or, more accurately, how miserable they ought to be. Forget that the House system should probably reflect its own randomized nature and keep funding as equal as possible across the board...
...latest battleground between the two men is the 28-word question put to the country in a referendum held on Sunday asking Soviet citizens whether the nation should be preserved as a "renewed federation of equal sovereign republics." The referendum, the first in the nation's history, had to be voted upon by a majority of the country's roughly 200 million eligible voters for the result to be valid; even then, the outcome has only symbolic meaning, since the details of the new federation must still be worked out in bargaining between the republics and Moscow...
...ballot in Russia is whether the republic should establish a directly elected presidency. Voters are likely to say they do want to choose their own leader, and Yeltsin is likely to win an election. He will then be ready to do battle with Gorbachev on a more equal footing. With a huge power base and an electoral mandate, Yeltsin will face a national leader who has never been popularly elected but has massive institutional power at his command...
...would-be rebels should be forewarned. The intangibility of the air guitarists’ instruments has no effect on the seriousness with which they regard their craft. “A great air guitarist is a true artist,” says Jung.DEFINING ‘AIRNESS’Equal parts sporting event, performance art, and party pastime, air guitar also promotes non-violence with an oft-said pacifist slogan, “Make Air, Not War.” “They say that if everyone picked up an air guitar, they would have to drop their weapons...