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...rid of Harvey Mansfield...
...defuse, not provoke, violence. "When the world p_____ you off and you need a place to vent," he explained, "Quake is a great place for it. You can kill somebody and watch the blood run down the walls, and it feels good. But when it's done, you're rid...
...argued that now that it has caught the world's limelight as the definitive music and culture of our generation, hip hop is not at a cultural peak but is instead marked for death. Since hip hop started as an urban counterculture of sorts, its current worldwide appeal has rid it of its most essential element, its countercultural defiance. It's now a genre up for grabs, a space for marketing frenzies. Consequently, its prominent products comprise not much more than mediocre commercial formulas devoid of the creative zeal of yesteryear, aimed instead at providing new images for advertising agencies...
Murphy also took a stand in opposition to the students' wish to get rid of the GRE as an admissions requirement...
WASHINGTON: Like calling in the cat to get rid of the mouse, federal antitrust regulators are pleased with at least one aspect of AT&T's new role as the Cable Guy -- AT&T will be using its cable lines to provide local phone service, creating needed competition for its old kin, the Baby Bells. But regulators are worried about how to bell the cat. "Overnight, AT&T has not only become the No. 1 cable company but also the de facto standard-bearer for the future of telecom," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumhol. "They...