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Almost all who spoke--both on the panel and in the audience--agreed that the Law School was not a pleasant place to be during this time of turmoil. "I don't like coming to work," said Professor of Law Todd D. Rakoff. "It seems to me out of control. A lot of people are fighting as if they want a divorce...
Students find apartments more pleasant than house rooms not only because of extra space, but for the little touches that make an apartment more like a home than a drab dorm...
Michelle Shocked's new album, Arkansas Traveler, proves that musicians can make 'em like they used to, and they can do 'em well. Her songs ramble, laugh, moan and cry in a pleasant country and blues style. although harkening back to pre-Rock musical traditions can make for a stale record, Michelle Shocked keeps the intensity level high with quality music and stunning vocals...
That is the ugly side. The second part is more pleasant and constructive. When politicians agree to meet with the groups--which they will--there will be nice, long dialogues, with no cameras. The group and the politicians should probably set ground rules at the start: The group has an hour to express its concerns or ask its questions. The politician gets the same amount to respond. This is the crux of the idea--a willingness to engage in substantive, unfettered, unedited, unrehearsed discussion. The people who lead these groups, whether students or activists, must believe the spectacle is only...
Damn. Or hot damn, depending on your tolerance for show-biz artifice and nonspontaneous combustion. Brooks is a pretty fair songwriter and a hokey holy terror of a performer. He has a solid, pleasant voice -- short on character and totally short-changed on funk -- and he's possessed of a mean weather eye for the prevailing winds of showbiz. He went to Oklahoma State University on a partial athletic scholarship ("Athletics always kept me in school") and majored in advertising and marketing. That background, competitive and commercially calculated, gave him a cool edge when he was ready to make...