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...staffing of the president’s office changes with its leader, but the departure of two aides at the end of two years—even when anticipated—is a relatively new phenomenon...
...monster smash; dig it. It is performed in an illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33 1/3 r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile up on endless racks in drugstores...
...case of the groups affiliated with the Institute of 1770, however, represents a very separate phenomenon that deserves more complete treatment. The affiliated student groups have unusually demanding requirements for rehearsal, entertainment and office space, and the leadership recognized that the College cannot provide enough space to all student groups. Rather than try to monopolize the limited space that is available, student leaders have worked tirelessly using their own resources to find space for their groups to call home. Despite the fact that they were time and time again outbid by the aggressive and rude Harvard apparat, they kept...
...phenomenon of hypocrisy, of course, is nothing new; this particular strain of the Republican variety became full-blown in the parade of Speakers of the House we saw in 1999, near the peak of impeachment. Rep. Bob Livingston, shortly after being elected to succeed the disgraced (and adulterous) Newt Gingrich, had to step down following the revelations of his own extramarital affair. At about the same time, the indiscretions of no fewer than three Republican House impeachment managers, Bob Barr, Dan Burton, and Henry Hyde, came to light in a document compiled by the sleazy, but hardly hypocritical, Larry Flynt...
...Degrees of Separation’s title refers to the (false) notion that every person in the world is connected through a network of acquaintances to every other person in just six links, and the play explores this phenomenon by contrasting Flan and Ouisa’s relationship with Paul—three degrees distant from them—with the one that they have with their children. This is one of the play’s weakest elements: the children make catty remarks to the parents, who in turn neglect them, and that’s just about...