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...History Department's lack of trainingprocedures is not the norm throughout the Faculty,however...
...opera (upon reflection, Carmen's violent death at the hands of her jilted lover makes her more palatable to society in general?) that so closely ties in with a central theme of Koestenbaum's book; opera's appeal to the "other" of society, to those who deviate from the "norm." As the surrogate voice of those who feared exposure and openness, such as closeted gays, opera liberated them, but also ultimately betrayed them, condemning the heroines with which they identified to tragic ends, reaffirming a morality ultimately...
...reminds me of Norm on 'Cheers.' If he could run this whole campaign sitting on a bar stool having a beer and watching a Chicago Bears game and have people come up to him one by one and talk to them, he could probably win it. But Florida is about wholesale politics and the packaging will be difficult. --Tom Fiedler, political editor of the Miami Herald, discussing the candidacy of Hugh Rodham, Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, in the Florida Senate race. Despite the overwhelming number of Bears fans in the Sunshine State, we think Mr. Rodham would do better...
Serious connoisseurs of the surrealistically kitschy visit Graceland Wedding Chapel, where Norm Jones, the Elvis impersonator in residence, is both pleased and bewildered by the sudden popularity of the wedding ceremonies he performs for $250. Heavy-metal star Jon Bon Jovi got married there in 1989; Phil Joanou, director of the U2's concert film Rattle and Hum, was not only married at the Graceland Chapel but played a tape of his wedding onstage every night of the band's last American tour. In December 1992 three members of Def Leppard showed up at the door, one to get married...
Hockey. The North Stars. A cinderella run to the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals. And owner Norm Green's heinous heist of the only professional hockey team from a state where the sport is revered as an institution on the order of church and family...