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...pernicious influence extends beyond the Federal government into our nation's cities. The largely rural NRA has stood against local governments' attempts to regulate guns within urban crime areas. The NRA's mantra that "guns don't kill people, people do" rings hollow before the sound of gunfire and death on urban streets...
During the question-and-answer session, Specter was unable to offer a cogent explanation for his a pro-abortion position. All of his responses boiled down to the following lame mantra: "The Supreme Court has decided the issue, and we are a nation of laws. The Supreme Court has decided...
...human ear on its cover. And indeed, no show was ever noisier. Go in, and you hit a wall of sound, all disagreeable: moanings and groanings; the prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed as a clown, in a baggy suit of vertical stripes that slyly recalls the garb of concentration-camp prisoners, shrieking, "No, no, no, nonono!" while writhing and jerking on the floor...
...first-years. There isn't really anything quite like it. At one point I saw a bubbly girl in a Laura Ashley dress running to the Union screaming, "Eliot! Eliot! I got Eliot!" Then there was the guy moping through the Science Center, staring at his feet, chanting the mantra, "They #$%@ing quadded me. I'm moving off-campus. They #$%@ing quadded me. I'm moving off-campus. " I think we should all get over this wacky Harvard cultural construction of "the house" as an identity. I got my last choice and I like it just fine...
...they followed the mantra ``Turn on, tune in and drop out,'' college students of the '60s also dropped academia's traditional disdain for business. ``Do your own thing'' easily translated into ``Start your own business.'' Reviled by the broader social establishment, hippies found ready acceptance in the world of small business. They brought an honesty and a dedication to service that was attractive to vendors and customers alike. Success in business made them disinclined to ``grow out of'' their countercultural values, and it made a number of them wealthy and powerful at a young...