Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still is. Sweet to see two rock-'n'-roll stalwarts, still formidable, bearing down hard, unmindful of age or fashion, getting back to basics with a worldly vengeance. For Neil Young that means the kind of raw, saber-toothed rock that has always lurked on the flip side of his folkie heart. For Eric Clapton it amounts to a return to the blues. But there are no elder statesmen to be heard on Young's new album, Sleeps with Angels, or on Clapton's From the Cradle. These are two paragons, playing and singing with sidelong majesty, determined...
Almost as bad was current vice president Josh Liston '95, who is running for the council presidency. Liston, whose position has flip-flopped on virtually every issue of substance facing the council, arrogantly proclaimed that he was "proud" of his record as a council member and executive. He didn't regret anything, he said, and he had nothing for which to apologize...
Still, the vote is intriguing for two reasons: first, because it represents a flip-flop from the club's position of late last year, when members voted to begin admitting women this fall; and second, because of the sheer stupidity of Carlock's subsequent statements...
...received national scrutiny when, in 1985, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett attacked the core, saying, "The core is designed not to teach any select body of knowledge, but to introduce presumably eager undergraduates to different 'modes of inquiry'.... Thus after four years, hopefully you will be able to flip a mental switch and think like a historian or an economist or a scientist. And you'd better be able to because the core won't give you a coherent picture about Western history, scientific advances, or philosophical though." A Harvardian himself, Bennett was one of many skeptics...
RICHMOND -- DOUGLAS WILDER's scuttling of his independent Senate candidacy in Virginia probably saves the seat for incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb. But wait -- there's a flip side: Democrats may lose two tight House races in which they were counting on a large turnout of blacks voting for Wilder to translate into votes for regular Democrats lower down on the ticket...