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What could be dismissed as just too grim is checked by the band's obvious sense of humanity. The hope-filled Geraldine at first seems like the recounting of good deeds by some spiritual guardian, until the chorus reveals, "I'll be the angel on your shoulder/ My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker." Think R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts the first time you heard...
...academic advising, small-group recreation, and exercise. “There’s been quite a bit of revamping since last year,” said Freshmen Dean’s Office administrator Gretchen Gringo, pointing to the work of a new Opening Days Committee that helped shoulder the work of processing student feedback from past first-year offerings and producing this year’s program. After receiving a favorable response to small-scale evening social events last year, this year the FDO is offering cooking classes and television viewings in small venues. Yesterday evening, freshmen...
...last couple of years Hirst has also been painting again - actually painting, as in the kind of pictures an artist produces with his own hand, not through assistants - and always with a sense of Bacon looking over his shoulder. If he continues to go this route it's a big risk. He's given no evidence up to now that he knows what to do with a brush, and there are plenty of people waiting for him to fall on his face...
...Obeidi proudly pointed to recently reopened teahouses and other signs of life around the neighborhood but voiced frustration over what he considered a cold shoulder given to his Awakening band by the Iraqi government. "If the government was really looking after the Awakening councils, our salaries would come from the government," al-Obeidi said. "Believe me, even if I get less money from the government than from the Americans, I would feel cleaner and more honest to be taking pay from the government... Any honest Iraqi would prefer to get it from the Iraqi government. I don't want...
...first, the lessons seemed wasted. The young John McCain was a constant breaker of rules, a brawler and a slob, an undersize punk with an oversize chip on his shoulder. He reluctantly followed his forebears to the Naval Academy, but he continued to flout authority there, leading a band of late-night miscreants known as the Bad Bunch, accumulating so many demerits that he finished 894th out of 899 in his class. And in flight school, a culture more accepting of go-it-alone bad boys, his womanizing and partying were considered impressive even by the standards of naval aviators...