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Singing a version of the Will Smith song “Summertime” called “Summerstime,” the group sang and rapped revised lyrics to the song, including the refrain, “Summers, Summers time, time to get those darkies back in line...
...here we get to the point. This isn’t a plea for folks who never watch SportsCenter to get out to the games and cheer for the football team, a refrain that has been repeated on these pages ad nauseum (this columnist is among the guilty). Instead, the question is posed to those people who ordinarily would be attracted to college sports, those who would go to games if they went to their state schools or Stanford or Duke: Do you know what you’re missing...
...that went on in Congress during the last two years. In 2000, when voters elected a closely divided House and Senate, most pundits prophesied that Republicans and Democrats would learn to work together. Instead, the past two years have been marked by complete gridlock. And despite the constant Republican refrain this fall that Tom Daschle is a tyrannical obstructionist, both parties are to blame. Republicans in the House have spent most of the past six months passing bills they know Senate Democrats will never touch, just so they can tout them during the campaign. Neither party has been willing...
...also said the Porter Square neighborhood needs to emphasize “consistency” in the way it deals with the problem. People should refrain from giving to panhandlers and know how to alert the police to disruptive activity without relying...
...trust in research, the scientific community must go beyond a culture of compliance—it must strive for a culture of conscience—one in which we do the right thing not because we are required to, but because it is the right thing to do, a refrain now echoed frequently throughout the research community,” Koski wrote in his letter to Thompson...