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Well, it wasn't quite Puttin' on the Hits, but it was close as the first annual Mather Mock Rock Festival premiered Friday night. Seven lip sync acts competed in the event, which was "dedicated to Increase Mather's spirit," said Douglas P. Kelly '87, who organized the contest with roommate Timothy M. Sheiner...
Alper and Kramer, who have placed ads in every issue, say their responses have included a puzzle, a mock resume, a photo of Mel Gibson, and a letter from a medical student written on a diagram of a skeleton...
...they did not live in a free country. After a brief speech by Gregory, the kids were asked to raise their fists and shout "Hurrah!" if they loved America. Many did so with fervor. But parents criticized the use of weapons to promote patriotism, and the Guard retreated. Further mock raids have been canceled...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road to U.S. Marine Corps headquarters near the Pentagon, where he has been assigned a routine desk job writing briefing memos for the Service Plans and Policy section...
What do we carry in our Russian baggage? Well, we have two new words: glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring). Some in the West mock these words as nothing but lofty sounding political deception. But are they? I have some experience with bitter disappointments in the past, and at first I withheld judgment about glasnost and perestroika. I hesitated to predict a rosy future. But facts are facts, and they are stubborn as a mule...