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Shannon Faulkner, who fought for more than two years to become the first female "knob" at the Citadel, dropped out of the military college after missing all of the school's "hell week" indoctrination. Faulkner became ill following a drill in 100-degree weather and spent most of the week in the campus infirmary. Her fellow cadets greeted the news of Faulkner's departure with cheers and jeers...
Sounds rational, but it isn't. Whereas heading off the next bomber is a chancy business at best, we could, if we chose, adjust highway death downward with nearly the precision of a volume-control knob. We could better enforce speed limits, say, or close all bars at dusk. Implicitly, society chooses not to save lives this way. Drivers and drinkers would bridle at the inconvenience. Indeed, most states have raised the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. since 1987, adding an estimated 400 to 500 deaths a year nationwide...
...show got off to a slow start as Garcia seemed to be having trouble getting comfortable. Throughout both "Feel Like a Stranger" and "They Love Each Other," he would start off on a solo only to stop, adjust a knob, step on a pedal, etc. Not until the third song, "Minglewood Blues," did the band settle down and start to rock. People often forget that, among other things, the Greatful Dead are a great rock 'n' roll band. "Minglewood" was followed by "So Many Roads," a slow ballad that ended with some rousing and soulful singing by Garcia. After switching...
...fact, there may be some truth to claims by other traditionalists that once Faulkner is in, rather than playing by the Citadel's rules, she (or her legal team) hopes to change the place. After their initial victory, her lawyers asked Houck to excuse her from the traditional knob crew cut, on the shaky grounds that it would stigmatize her as a woman. More sensibly, given recent threats on Faulkner's life and fear of cadet harassment, attorney Sara Mandelbaum promised, "We'll be monitoring Shannon's progress closely -- and we'll hold the administration accountable...
...have to turn the volume knob way up to discover the way in which this, or any other Meadows song, is built, from the words onward, and what makes it interesting. Much more so than could ever be true of any louder type of pop, the Sugargliders' songs become vanilla-flavored background music whenever you can't pay enough attention to them, whether that's because you're listening while writing a paper, or because your speakers turn all tones to tin. Listen loud, however--especially to the long last two tracks, "90 Days of Moths and Rust...