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...issue is an important one, what is more important is the underlying question of representation. The Undergraduate Council is a representative body. The question here is what it means to be a representative. I was elected to serve a constituency of over 350 students, and my job, first and foremost, is to reflect the views and concerns of the students who elected me. The prevailing forces on the Council wish to prevent me from doing this...
...Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma may be to him, Bernardin feels called, first and foremost, to make peace in his own parishes...
What else lies in store? Berg's Wozzeck, perhaps. A demanding performer who turned down a request by Herbert von Karajan to sing Beckmesser because he disagreed with Karajan's concept, Prey is currently mulling a couple of offers to sing the foremost 20th century antihero. He plans to ignore the tradition of croaking and barking the role that has evolved since the challenging opera's premiere in 1925. "Berg wanted a beautiful voice," says Prey. "I want to sing every note as it is written...
Mayer thought so too, and continued to play in the YMCA league for the next nine years. Besides being one of the league's foremost right forward wings, she ran track and played basketball for her high school. In face, Mayer considered attending UVA and playing for its nationally acclaimed basketball squad. But once she arrived at Harvard. Mayer put her high tops away for good...
...Dawn of the Dead), the Pittsburgh poet of zombie cannibalism, and Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining), the man who took horror out of the subconscious and put it back on America's supermarket shelves; one of the last of the true B movie filmmakers directing a screenplay by the foremost purveyor of mass paperback horror. Unfortunately, a potentially interesting juxtaposition fails. Romero's shock tactics end up being overwhelmed by King's schlock tactics, and the result, Creepshow, is certainly not worthy of the fetid--but rich--soil from which it sprang...