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...easy loping walk through the meadows, Moses sings a warrior song. There is a falsetto line of rapid narrative in these songs that is interrupted with a chorus of bass organ tones fetched from deep in the chest -- low, menacing warrior iterations, animal noises proclaiming war beneath the almost soprano narration. Moses is performing both the falsetto and the deep, sinister chorus. The deep tones of the chorus are like the lowest register of a fierce harmonica. The song is about the Masai clans, about old drought and famine. An old laibon says, don't worry, because the warriors will...
There is a warrior lope that goes along with the song, although Moses does not give it the full treatment now. Chin and chest jut forward at the assertion of organ tone: Hunnnnnnh! Hunnnnnnnnh! The Masai know how to look dangerous, and sound dangerous. And the history of East African warfare confirms that they are dangerous. But the visitor wonders why the hands of the men are so oddly soft...
...both in the lack of concerted action by students and the severe circumscription of their rights by administrators. The policy-making bodies remain the domain of a select few. Until both groups recognize the inherent rights of the student community, the Undergraduate Council will remain the anemic, ineffectual organization it is. Accomodating and unambitious council representatives regularly forego controversial confrontation and concentrate on the mundane tasks of doling out small sums of money to small student organizations. But the limits on its faculty charter and its status as a student extracurricular activity severely limit its potential. The council...
...Overseers have evolved into a tangential and powerless organ. Members usually rubber-stamp major decisions and concentrate on informally advising academic departments. Their agenda has become limited and largely inconsequential, their proceedings have become shrouded in secrecy, their members are ordered not to speak to the media, or by extension to the public...
...affronted by what he calls the hiring of a "uterus for nine months." He maintains, "In the old days you could buy a whole person -- a slave -- to do with as you wished. Now, if these surrogate contracts are accepted, you'll be able to buy just a specific organ...