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People who had quit start again and others,like Kassam, just bitterly lament, "I'm addicted!"as reason for continuing. One junior's explanationfor continuing his habit was little more secureabout myself. I think it has something to do witha manual-oral fixation and how I like my hands tostay busy. I can just be walking along, and whenI'm smoking, I sometimes feel I don't have a carein the world. I think 'It's just me and mycigarette and everything's okay.' Smoking makes meslow down and appreciate every walk more...
Sure, Jerry has his critics. Some claim he exploits human misery for entertainment, decry the sex and violence and lament the influence he may have on younger viewers...
...album goes, mixing Frank Zappa into a black sheep cover of Frederick Knight's northern soul lament, "Lonely," taking a cool, excited, but never tense reigns over the popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out of the rambling cowboy melody that eventually surrenders to a rousing disco-esque horn section. Only the fifth track, "Rubber Band," goes too far. Where the rest of Stupid, Stupid, Stupid makes a cheerfully boisterous rewiring of the listener's head, "Rubber Band" pummels it with a crow...
Thankfully, we have no equivalent evils today. As Andrew A. Green '98 wrote in a Feb. 3 op-ed, "The tenor of campus politics this fall revealed a pervasive ignorance and selfishness among undergraduates." Which worthy causes does Green lament have not been taken up? [W]e have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas." Each of these concerns is Harvard-centered, and with the exception of a multi-cultural student center and an ethnic studies department...
What Col. Lindbergh should have said is, "We must be as impersonal as the professional mourner, who doesn't lament the seriousness of the plague, or the number of fatalities, as long as it helps his own business." ROBERT E. SHERWOOD The Playwrights' Company New York City...