Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Longtime Detroit resident Maggie Jene Resnor told The New York Times that "this is the Motor City, Motown. We've given too much to the world to be known as the city that couldn't keep a million people." This sentiment, that a million people is a benchmark which cities use to compare themselves to others, is completely ridiculous. As if New York would say to Chicago, "Oh, don't talk to Detroit...Didn't you hear? She can't even keep a million...
...continue to hold some 350 U.N. peacekeeping troops hostage, that's an acute dilemma. The Sierra Leoneans, who sentenced Sankoh to death in 1998 before being obliged by an abortive peace deal to make him vice president, may be inclined to punish him for his innumerable crimes - a sentiment reflected in reports that he was paraded naked through the streets of Freetown by Sierra Leonean troops before being handed over to British paratroopers to be flown to a secret location. But the immediate priority of the U.N. remains the release of the hostages, and that's where the dilemma could...
More concerned with plot than pathos, Brown presents his characters without judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...
...Obsessed. Ain't it great to feel like you have a good sense of perspective? However misguided that sentiment might be? Here's to those who push it a little far with whatever their calling might be: people, random causes, personal missions. Who remind you, for whatever reason, that you're handling it all just fine...
...field high above the rest. James Carmichael '01 returns to the stage in the beautifully interpreted role of Troilus. Although occassionally distracted by the moaning sex in the background or the raving pole dancers swinging from the pseudo-club stage, Carmichael's impeccable performance ensures that Shakespeare's true sentiment was not lost in the flashing lights and glow sticks...