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This petition was hardly the disgruntled mutterings of a few dissatisfied students, but a remarkable demonstration of shared sentiment. The organizers were able to get the signatures of over half of the Class of 2003 in only two days. Nor is the issue a trivial one. Every one of the first-years who signed that petition will be directly affected by the rules on blocking group size, and for most the process of choosing a group is a difficult and unpleasant period. It is natural and appropriate that first-years should try to make their concerns known to the administration...
...money, they all gladly accept tips. Talerico advises FM, "If you like what we're playing, feel free to throw in a couple bucks, and if not, keep it to yourself--it makes a bad day even more miserable." Wright echoes the sentiment: "If you see a street musician, not that money is the main object, when you throw in a quarter, that's something we don't take for granted. Since trains come every six or seven minutes, if you miss one train, it probably won't spoil your plans. So miss a train and really listen...
Gertrude and Claudius is engrossing enough on its own terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play. But those readers who know Hamlet will find Updike's novel an echo chamber of beguiling allusions. "You protest too much," her husband-to-be tells young Gertrude, a sentiment she will repeat during her life onstage. And the doom awaiting Updike's people lends their deeds a tragic cast...
...offer excuses for McCain's loss. This was not, they say, a referendum on McCain's "electability." Results in conservative South Carolina, they go on to spin, are hardly repr'sentative of the nation as a whole - Michigan's primary will be a more accurate predictor of general voting sentiment. And, as the talking heads, ever anxious to keep the contest alive, are quick to point out, while the support of the religious right was a wonderful tool for Bush in South Carolina, in more moderate states it may prove to be something of a monkey on the governor...