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...liver ailments, had a decent run by early rock ?n roll-star standards. He didn?t kill himself with drugs or junk food or (of course) reckless driving. But though he was in his mid-20s when he broke out of the race-music ghetto into the rock mainstream, Charles always seemed older. He came to fame grown-up. The hillbilly contingent of proto-rock - Elvis and Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly, all long gone - seemed like slick teenagers busting with musical testosterone. They sang with green urgency about what they wanted to do. Charles sang about...
...often have been accused of cavorting with administrators, which I think is ridiculous,” says Mackinnon, who is also a Crimson editor. “But we are, in that sense, a more mainstream organizing group...
...difference between us is that he is conservative in the sense of being inherently suspicious of change,” Bosco wrote of Mansfield in an e-mail. “He reveres old institutions for their own sake, and deeply admires proponents of aristocracy such as Edmund Burke. Mainstream American conservatism, in contrast, focuses heavily on liberty and the rights of the individual. Such conservatives venerate Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson over proponents of aristocracy like Burke...
...picked a leader of such caliber to take on the president and his henchmen in the general election. Despite what misleading Republican attack ads say, Kerry’s record on the war in Iraq, taxes, the environment, social security and health care is much more in line with mainstream America than Bush’s radical right-wing agenda disguised by the unconvincing veneer of “compassionate conservatism.” Indeed, nearly every poll taken indicates that, especially on domestic concerns, Kerry consistently beats out Bush on almost every issue of major importance to Americans...
...making movies occurred when she was a sophomore at the College in a musty room in the basement of Sever Hall for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Since then, Nair has built an international reputation as a gifted independent filmmaker who declines to conform to the mainstream film industries of either Hollywood or Bollywood, the booming South Asian commercial film industry that produces as many as 800 motion pictures a year...