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...Interhouse dining and House character affect the number of voters," said Lucy H. Koh '90, a former council member not seeking re-election. "For example, Adams House is not as interested in politics," she said. Adams House Committee Co-Chair Chris P. Kaneb '90 described voter turnout there as "lame...
...satiric and surrealistic. When the dead Belushi prowls his old haunts in a morgue sheet that looks like a toga out of the Animal House closet, the film almost has style to match its guts. So does Chiklis' boldly percussive performance. But Wired's take on Belushi is so lame and gross that it validates the verdict of a cop in the movie: "He's just another fat junkie who went belly...
...offending other constituencies. In Have Thine Own Way, Lord, sinners no longer ask Jesus to wash them "whiter than snow," because of objections from blacks. In Wesley's O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, editors originally dropped a verse proclaiming the spiritual uplifting of the "dumb" and the "lame," lest the handicapped take umbrage. They later restored the words, but suggest in a footnote that the stanza may be omitted...
...upheaval began two weeks ago, with isolated outbreaks of looting in several provincial capitals. Widespread food riots broke out in Rosario (pop. 957,000) early last week, after lame-duck President Raul Alfonsin announced his fourth emergency economic plan of the year. Roving crowds, described by police as a mixture of the hungry, the criminal and the opportunistic, overwhelmed poorly prepared local police. Stores not gutted by looters closed their doors, creating widespread food shortages. The unrest then spread to the volatile working-class suburbs of Buenos Aires...
...launch the kind of overnight reforms that would convince U.S. politicians that they were being heard. A Japanese Prime Minister does not carry the clout of an American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look for stronger leadership. Cultural anthropologist...