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Students and graduates of the University are helping to shape the Democratic National Convention here this week in roles ranging from vice-presidential nominee to "shep-herd...
State of the Union eerily presages the aura of excitement that Ross Perot is bringing to the 1992 presidential race. Like Tracy in the movie, the billionaire Texas tycoon can be described as boasting "the rare combination of sincerity and drive that the common herd will go for. They think he's one of them. He thinks he's one of them." But Perot scorns the two-party politics that tripped up Tracy and instead is mobilizing the energies of the little people -- the John and Jane Does of the land -- in a citizens' crusade to collect...
Anyone who hasn't heard the Cowboy Junkies would have a herd time imagining their mix of blues, folk, country and rock that somehow blends to create a mellow, Iyrical sound. For example, their performance of the lulling, romantic "Misguided Angel" resonated with the sweet wail of Bird's harmonica...
...adapted from his lecture series at the New York Public Library titled "The Culture of Complaint," to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. The lectures were inspired by his unhappiness at efforts to remake U.S. school curriculums along politically correct lines. "What angers me is the herd instinct that leads people to suppose that European culture is the fount of all evils in the ^ world," says Hughes. "I don't believe...
...from the Eastern flyway. He plans to turn his Flying D ranch near Bozeman into what amounts to a privately owned national park: he has sold all the cattle, uprooted miles of barbed-wire fence, let pastures of hay and alfalfa return to native grasses and started raising a herd of buffalo he hopes will swell...