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...recognize that many other students disrupt classes as well. Many of us are familiar with the sight of students streaking through lectures or final club punchees dragging kegs through classrooms. We believe that the choice to pursue disciplinary action against such pranksters should be left up to the professors whose rights have been infringed upon. In this instance, Mansfield made an effort to seek out Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and bring these events to his attention. We think disciplinary action in this case is entirely justified. Furthermore, the political nature of this disruption makes...
...poets. But cognitive theory could simply not explain the questions we wonder about most: why some people just seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain buoyant in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind or spirit, in short, determine who succeeds...
...along with four other officials pending a Justice Department investigation, testified before the Senate panel probing the FBI's 1992 fatal standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver's family. Contradicting previous testimony by the on-scene FBI commander, Potts insisted he never approved the agency's controversial shoot-on-sight rules of engagement...
...enough, the acting is mostly passable. Leguizamo is convincing and amusing as a woman and thus as a drag queen, even if he has to be an ignorant, dizzy one. As a cross between June Cleaver and Liz Taylor, Swayze succeeds in his matron role. Snipes, however, is a sight gag. Leguizamo and Swayze are graceful and can pull off the drag queen bit, but Snipes looks like a big man in a dress. His obnoxious anti-Latino lines make his character relatively unattractive as well. Blythe Danner, in a small part as an odd local, is subtle and funny...
...back to the can-do attitude that made America. We have to keep trying, and risk failing, in order to solve this country's problems. We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America...