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...this cinematic feel and unsuccessfully tries to merge this paralyzing force with a punchy, incisive style.The prose alternates colloquial language with glamorized descriptions of the urban, partially adopting the interior monologue of each character. This strange fluctuation between the omniscient, descriptive voice and the informal internal voice can occur even in the same sentence. When the muscular punk Ponyboy rides his bike through the desert, Bock welds the character’s vocabulary together with an acute sense of the details of Las Vegas’ man-made oasis of asphalt and neon: “Ponyboy?...
...Rules of Faculty Procedure currently require that one-sixth of the full Faculty—which has approximately 700 members—be present for any “binding votes” to occur...
...this fracas. He is more measured in his responses than Chavez and Uribe, and said he was "pleased" if not completely satisfied with the OAS resolution. He and Chavez still hope for an OAS condemnation as well as an apology and reassurance from Bogota that future raids will not occur, but Ecuador's Foreign Minister called the resolution "a triumph." What's more, while Correa may be furious with Uribe, Latin diplomats suggest the Ecuadorean leader was also put off last weekend when Chavez pre-empted him with his own tirade instead of allowing Correa to respond first...
...publication of the third secret endorsed the kind of potent popular piety inspired by Marian apparitions, a trend in popular Catholicism that had gained momentum in the 20th century. But the Vatican response also reined in the flip-side of such enthusiasm: unfettered religious hysteria that can occur when white-hot supernaturalism seems to rupture the staid rhythms of modern institutional religious life...
...representatives of this committee are independently selected...It does not make sense for the UC to pick the students who will be reviewing it,” wrote Alyssa Colbert ’10, a Council representative from Winthrop House. “The selection of delegates should absolutely occur independently because the Committee must be autonomous.”Another issue that delegates expressed concern about was the application deadline, which was initially last Friday, and whether it would give students enough time to decide to apply, when the Council didn’t start advertising the application until...