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...interview in which Sendak said the wild things in the story had been inspired by relatives from his childhood. He explained how when he was a child, these very old, frightening relatives with beady eyes and hair in their noses would come to visit for dinner. They would lean very close to him and say things like, "You're so cute I could just eat you up." They looked so threatening that the young Sendak was afraid they actually would...
...therefore urge the administration to reconsider those policies that lean towards turning the Commons into a mere commercial enterprise as opposed to a real center for student life. We also encourage the Undergraduate Council to continue to champion student interests regarding the Commons...
...strain to understand what ideals the people in this film are willing to die for (and, more to the point, kill for). One's idea of God as opposed to another's? The heritage of one's blood as opposed to that of someone else's? As we lean in to catch their garbled, often hysterical self-justifications, we also catch a larger point--that none of these principles is worth a single human life...
Next it was the other attorney's turn, Bob Bradford from Montgomery, representing an insurance and finance company. Said Bradford: "I come from a small community. I am sure there are folks that, if I went to high school with and they were on my jury, they might lean a little my way. Would any one of you tend to lean a little bit toward Mr. Beasley?" The judge was William Robertson, 51, a former law partner of Beasley's, and a protege in Little League baseball ("He was a hero we looked up to," the judge says of Beasley...
What Perot lacks at the moment is a clear rationale for a sequel. Last year he urged his followers to give the Republicans a shot at ruling Congress. Perotistas, who lean rightward anyway, voted for the G.O.P. by a ratio of 2 to 1. Now Republicans must be given an opportunity to satisfy Perot's following. "They basically have adopted our 1992 platform," Perot contended in a TIME interview. "Then the question is, Will they deliver? That's all that matters to us." With Perot doing the grading, Republicans may have little chance of passing the test...