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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group's debut album, Song, is appropriately titled: there is so little differentiation between the tracks that the album just appears to be one very long, 55-minute song. Still, as their name implies, the group emphasizes traditional working-class dreams, questions and fears in their admirable lyrics. This twisted dichotomy of harsh, realistic lines and dreamy background music is fascinating in the first tract, but becomes a bit monotonous after appearing incessantly throughout the album. If you're able to get past the tedious three-minute instrumental introductions of each track, powerful lines such as, "What good is ones...
...Harvard Anime Society, the current craze that we're witnessing had humble beginnings. "Many people who had seen 'Robotech' or 'Voltron' as kids found out where it had come from, and that there was more of it," Huang explained. "This was the core of the fan base for a long while. In more recent times, as word got out and these fans introduced their hobby to non-fan friends, anime started to spread more and more into the mainstream...
...admire the Japanese greatly for realizing the variety that is accessible through animation," Huang remarked. "It's something which American society has long been misled about--that cartoons are not simply kid's fare...
Even if we believe that for-profit consulting firms with long-term business relationships to garment corporations can deliver objective information, as the present FLA plan stands, each factory would be inspected once every ten years--ten lifetimes in today's economy. And, since inspections are pre-announced, factories owners will rest easy, knowing they can abuse women workers and bust unions for years and still enjoy valuable "sweat-free" certification from the U.S. government--and Harvard...
...says Eisenberg. "Guidelines like this make them feel hampered, and they're already up in arms about how much enforcement is going to cost." Clinton appears unmoved by their complaints, and, according to the New York Times, is annoyed with Congress for allowing the issue to languish for so long. Indeed, Clinton will take the opportunity to urge Congress to also allow patients to sue doctors or HMOs for undermining their privacy...