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...Owens, the protagonist of A Regular Guy, is an Oregon geneticist-tycoon vaguely modeled on Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (the author's brother). As a student he has had an affair with Mary, an earthbound girl, who becomes pregnant. In the book's signal exchange Tom tells her, "I can't have a baby now, Mare. I've just started something. I've got to give it time." Of course, Mary has just started something too, and that will be her destiny...
...more one invests in the political process, the more one receives in dividends. Too prove that point, just compare neighborhoods and ask whose potholes are being fixed, whose infrastructure is being rehabilitated and even who gets visits from their representative. The fact that voters choose not to vote should signal that our politics is in need of correcting. And what of the voter who chooses to vote for a candidate who has no measurable chance for electoral success? That voter uses his or her vote to make a value statement, an opportunity that few people take advantage...
...Cups compared to "Monkey Town," which might rightly be compared to Space Mountain. The act opens as a television broadcast hosted by a absurdly drunk Santa Claus (Lorenzo J. Moreno '00) and an amazingly facile and supinely cynical Rosemary Kennedy (Samantha S.B. van Gerbig '98). The applause signs signal the audience to cheer for Santa's anti-communist doings and Rosemary's front-lobeless plottings. Most of the rest of the show is reserved for an LSD-induced communist "Fantasia" which actually seems like a directorial reverie by Leeore Schnairsohn '97. In any case, the Reds are no less possessed...
...view 4:30 in the morning as an unusual hour for somebody to be banging on the window," Riley added. "That should be a signal to call the police and have someone check on what [the person outside the window is] doing...
...their part, top Kemp advisers insisted to TIME that neither Reed nor any other campaign official had asked Kemp to attack Clinton's character. Dole himself had sent the signal that the tactic might backfire, they said. "Our surveys show," Dole told ABC, "that a sure way to lose the women is to do the tough stuff...