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...anyway. Its blurred vision, caused by an improperly ground primary mirror that NASA failed to test thoroughly before launch, is the least of the Hubble trouble. The telescope's solar panels wobble badly when they're heated by the sun; if they snapped off, the craft would be virtually powerless. It is one gyroscope away from being rudderless. And its electronics have been acting up more than they should...
Eric Baker '95 writes on page 21 about the Senate's attempt to lift restrictions on major league baseball team owners. Baker warns, "Without the right to tightly regulate its franchises, major league baseball would be powerless to prevent teams from hopping from one city to another. Longtime fans would be abandoned in the free market quest for profits." Good going, Senate. Thanks to that other bill you passed, my favorite team is going to become the Guadalupe Phillies. And George Steinbrenner is going to buy my younger brother to be his mistress. Wait. I mean--oh, save me, Peninsula...
...decimated line-up was powerless to compete with the meet's top teams. Cornell, a top-10 team nationally, delivered another dominating performance, capturing five of the top 10 individual spots. Dartmouth made a game effort to challenge the Big Red, but came up 17 points short...
...daughters, Lena (Lauren Tom)and Rose (Rosalind Chao), emotionally defeated bytheir American lives: They are afraid to speak,dependent and thus powerless. Their mothers aredisappointed at such weakness, remembering theirown unabashed acts of bravery in the face ofadversity. The imagery accompanying the tales ofLena and her mother Ying Ying (France Nuyen) isparticularly suggestive, contrasting theoverabundance of passion in the mother's past,with the daughter's current emotional void. In aflashback filled with thunder and lightening, YingYing recalls a fight with her unfaithful husband...
...think that Rush Limbaugh is the equivalent of say, Mort Sahl. And again, it's because of who his targets are. Yes, it's identifiably satire, but the point I was trying to make last night is that when you aim satire at powerless groups it is really not only cruel, it's pathetically vulgar...