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Because the team has to stuff its giant leaps and revolving turns into the narrow MAC mezzanine, only three or four girls can practice full-out at any one time. The only place they can physically all dance together as a team is the Rieman Dance Studio, which they have reserved for two hours a week...
...impressive familiarity with things American. Gorbachev said that he had studied U.S. law, and he claimed to have read a 600-page Hoover Institute book, adding, "I noticed many ideas that this Administration is taking." He was not impressed, he said, with the men surrounding the President, calling them "narrow-minded" and benefiting "them selves and not the national interest...
...guilty of writing some "slapdash" opinions, says Stanford's Gunther. "To my taste Brennan has been a hell of a lot better since he's had to articulate his views in dissent." In those opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor caught him at it in a case earlier this year and wrote with annoyance in a foot note, "Justice Brennan not only distorts the reasoning and holding of our decision but, worse, invites...
...opponent of patriarchy that cannot be co-opted or assimilated. "Feminism," she writes, "is in a state I call blessed: its ends and its means are identical." How feminism will overthrow patriarchy goes unexplained, though she believes it requires the replacement of power with pleasure. This is not the narrow, selfish pleasure of patriarchy, but "a gratified response to quality" that will somehow blossom into compassion and community...
...start of the 2004-05 academic year, Kirby announced plans to have curricular review proposals voted on by the Faculty this spring, launching six new committees to narrow the focus of the review on issues such as the January Term and reform of Expository Writing...