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...Before, I had the impression that it was to impress the parole board or something, but actually, I realized that they have nothing to do because their lives are so restricted," he said. "You get to talk to someone else who is not a prisoner or a guard. Unlike some of the prison administration, chaplains actually care about the welfare of the prisoners--they're the good guys of the system...
...Crimson must prevent these incidents from happening in the first place. According to Managing Editor Valerie J. MacMillan '98, The Crimson works hard to impress upon new reporters the importance of taking quotations very seriously. At the first meeting for those comping The Crimson, writers are told the importance of being exact when they use quotation marks. But because many Crimson reporters are young and new to news writing, mistakes are sometimes inevitable...
...cult came to national attention after two dozen people from the small town of Waldport, Oregon, dropped everything to follow Bo and Peep. A 1975 TIME article described Applewhite as having a "rare ability to impress audiences with the urgency and truth of his message." (Such was Bo and Peep's appeal that NBC aired a series pilot called The Mysterious Two--originally titled Follow Me If You Dare--about an extraterrestrial couple.) But Bo and Peep's disciples were not all sheep. One group of discontented followers rejected the cult when a promised space visit never materialized. To stem...
...collusion by the Ivy League's Overlap Group are disturbing. What concerns me even more is that these are supposed to be the top U.S. colleges--icons of leadership and principle. But they are behaving like a bunch of followers. They protect their bottom line while they try to impress prospective students and "look as good as Harvard." The ethics gap between what is taught and what is done by the institutions is apparently an ever widening one. BRUCE D. SHEPHARD Tampa, Florida...
Monteverdi is a brilliant tactician; he bases just about all the Vespers music on the ancient traditon of Gregorian chant. Surely that will appeal to conservative church authorities. And he shows a dazzling musical variety in doing so; surely that will impress the musical world. And he intersperses the psalms and canticles with the very latest things, little concertos or motets for solo voices, displaying the fabulous virtuosity that the Mantuan singers, under Monteverdi's direction, were capable...