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...looking at the relationship between students and the administration, students say that they should make important decisions because they're the ones who will be affected by the outcome of those decisions. They let loose their shrill and infantile cry: "We're the ones who have to live with these choices...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Students Should Shut Up | 12/12/1995 | See Source »

Criticism of conservatives and Republicans often seems partisan and shrill, but it is often simply a matter of right and wrong. While I have serious problems with the Democratic party as well, I believe that the Republicans are the worse of two evils. In this column, I once again bash Republicans with both fists...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Student Aid Sabotage | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

...Redman's playing seems to signify a persistent lack of artistic maturity. He has the skills, but not the overall aesthetic sense to find an appropriate setting for them. One of the most aggravating motifs that continually recurs in Redman's playing in his insistence on rising into the shrill falsetto of his tenor sax at utterly inappropriate times. On a ballad entitled "Never End," Redman seemed to mock any legitimate musical statements he may have made earlier in the piece by turning the tenor sax into a penny whistle. Irony in jazz is a good thing, but Redman...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Redman Quartet Concert 'A Trip' | 11/9/1995 | See Source »

...Russian troops will serve under NATO command. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow: "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHAIN-OF-COMMAND TROUBLE | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

...will be much more difficult for Yeltsin to commit combat troops. "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN RUSSIA AFFORD THE TROOPS? | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

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