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...laughed off as tacky but clever; but Sliwa's antics in Atlanta were a different story. As the nation helplessly watched authorities try to catch the murderer of Black children in Atlanta. Sliwa joined the various psychics, bloodhound-owners and other publicity-seekers who publicly announced they would lend a hand to the investigators. Never mind that the Angels were not an investigative unit: they would start a chapter in Atlanta. The incident was especially distasteful because Atlanta residents, almost numb with grief, had already formed citizen patrol groups...
...Barbarosa, Nelson lets his weather-beaten features speak for themselves, like the landscape. Though he delivers his lines effectively and emotionally, he still doesn't so much act as lend his corporeal presence to the film. Though we never learn much about the man, we can still appreciate the legend in full force. Gary Busey, a terribly underrated actor, is equally magnificent in his transition from a clumsily sensitive young man, to a man equaling Barbarosa's legendary stature. The whole film shows a great care and craftsmanship rarely seen nowadays in bigger productions...
...Glee Club had already agreed to record the song when Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti stepped in. He forbade the enterprise entirely. In a statement released last week. Giamatti explained that the Glee Club represented the University and added. "The University does not take sides or lend its name to one political cause or another, no matter how compelling that cause...
...Veritas," it says on the seal of Yale University. "Light and Truth." By taking a seemingly uncharacteristic position, Giamatti reminds us that a university must not only lend its support to worthy issues, but also show concern for the way that support will be used...
...political process. It tends to confine political office to candidates who are either independently wealthy or willing to sell their votes to the proliferating political action committees (PACs) of special-interest groups. These two types often are really one. It has become standard procedure for a rich candidate to lend huge sums to his campaign from his personal fortune, then stage fund-raising parties after the election at which he solicits funds from PACS to repay himself. Says Edward Roeder, compiler of a directory, PACs Americana: "Many Senate seats have been bought but not yet paid for. We will...