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...were," because no matter what Jackson says, removing the spaces from in between songs does not a song cycle make. Take, for instance, the opener, "Tomorrow's World." It begins promisingly, with breathy vocals sitting side-saddle on a set of naked guitar arpeggios, driven by an obsessive pattern and punctuated by an incredibly satsifying bass drum. Particularly effective, too, are a series of abrupt changes in volume. But just when everything is going well, Jackson screws up the chorus, bigtime in that it destroys the mood of everything that precedes it. The entire listening experience is marred...
...more troubling pattern common in non-minority admissions may be appearing in that of minorities as well--with more devastating results. The trend is this: as the number of qualified, diverse student applicants increases, the pressure Harvard faces to recruit economically disadvantaged students actually decreases. For instance, when more Hispanic student applicants from outside the Southwest and from wealthier backgrounds gain admission--as happens as the Hispanic community grows--those in the barrios and inner cities face higher odds against admission...
...arrest capped off police attempts to find a pattern in what Tempesta called the recent "rash" of break-ins to cars in the garage. Officers determined that most of the crimes were occurring soon after the security guard went off duty...
...than the one coming from Virginia. As the racially divided voting in the Windy City demonstrated, American elections all too often remain a matter of black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation, seems an unlikely setting for a brand of biracial coalition that could break the depressing pattern of color-bound voting. Yet if Doug Wilder wins the governorship, the old bugaboo of racial politics will have been dealt a severe blow...
When he was Vice President, Bush personally assured Honduras that it would be ! well rewarded for its role in a secret U.S. plan to keep the Nicaraguan rebels supplied. -- Hugh Sidey on the incredible shrinking presidency. -- Racial bloc voting prevails in Chicago's mayoral election, but in Virginia the pattern may be broken. -- The strange exile of a terrorist target...