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Summitry has been in bad odor of late, criticized as a worthless exercise at best, or an outright danger at worst. But in an era of increasing global interdependence, the ritual gathering of government leaders serves one unquestionably valuable purpose: it enables them to take one another's measure at first hand, to size up their fellow leaders' abilities and weaknesses...
...cause death." Electric chairs now wait for the some 58 inmates on Texas' death row, and Representative Ben Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person to death is a horrible procedure." Even proponents of the death penalty could hardly quarrel with that assertion, but historians might fault Grant's chronology. It was more than 23 centuries ago that Plato recounted how the cold began in the feet, moved...
...almost forgotten the atmosphere of a Dead concert, but this solicitation brought back the distinctive flavor. Dead Heads--the band's followers--are a unique and dedicated group, with a language and ritual of their own. They see the Grateful Dead as the last bastion of the Sixties' drug culture. Jerry Garcia, the focal personality of the group, presides as a hip, trollish figure who was there and remembers it when it all happened. Garcia generates the energy of the concert, not with sudden dramatic movement, but with a sparkling liquidity, both in his guitar rills and his cool, mirror...
...cramming in Lamont for next year's Generals, (b) pounding away at their typewriters trying to get their Fine Arts papers in on time, (c) tearing their arms off in the wristwrestling tournament last Monday, their counterparts across the country were banging heads together in an annual ritual known as spring practice...
Arffa said that when Adams House residents call the police, it "is part of the ritual," which also often included water ballon attacks from Adams and Claverly Hall resident whose windows face the castle...