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...think the American atmosphere, the American imagination (news, movies, books, music, fact, fiction, entertainment, culture, life in the streets, zeitgeist) is now so filled with murder and violence (gang wars, random shootings not just in housing projects but in offices and malls and schools) that violence of any kind - including solemn execution - has become merely a part of our cultural routine and joins, in our minds, the passing parade of stupidity/psychosis/chaos/entertainment that Americans seem to like, or have come to deserve. In Freudian terms, the once forceful (and patriarchal) American Superego (arguably including the authority of law, of the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

Yesterday's concert, hosted by professional a cappella quintet Five O' Clock Shadow, featured the nation's six regional champions performing for no more than fifteen minutes each. By the determination of a random draw, the Callbacks sang last...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Callbacks Place Third in National Competition | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Morgenstern said this wasn't the first time the band acted weird. He said that they made strange and "random" demands of the council members in charge of hospitality--for instance, the band requested Quaker Oats, according to Morgenstern...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nice Weather Blesses Swingin' Springfest | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...upgraded accommodations at our expense." Clearly, with no suites, no kitchenettes, no free food and half of the Harvard group stranded 15 minutes down the road, an upgrade had not gone into effect. Michael Edgett, a recent graduate of Western New England College relates the same story of a random switch from Brisas Suites into the Yalmakan. "The room at the Yalmakan was extremely small with no refrigerator. We paid extra money for trip insurance and were supposed to get a room upgrade if there were any problems with our accommodations. We were told that our room was actually...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Experts of the Scam | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

...absorbed enough random nudity at Woodstock '99, but I was not prepared for what happened next. In between the animation and Korn, the cameras were turned on the crowd, focusing on the more attractive girls in the crowd. The moment the camera would focus, the girl (regardless of age, from 14 to 40) immediately flashed the entire crowd, to the catcalls and cheers of all. Two girls, riding on the shoulders of a few men in the pit, began making out and groping each other for the delight of all the shirtless males in the place. For 20 minutes...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Nineties Meet The Teens | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

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