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...pair can't seem to just have fun with each other on this woman's weekend in which they are finally free of the men who hem them in. Thelma is still the teenager at the slumber party who gets bored and has to call a few boys to come over. Less than an hour out of town, she talks Louise into stopping at a raunchy bar, where she dances with a creep who then tries to rape her in the parking lot. The women are sympathetic enough characters by this time so that we leap over the hurdle many...
FROM THE STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVE, there is an even more powerful argument to accept disciplinary action. The nature of civil disobedience mandates that those who participate are willing to make personal sacrifices for their cause. It is this willingness that transforms a slumber party in an administrative office into a genuine act of protest. "We will try to persuade with our words, but, if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts," said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1960. "We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer...
...South African government warns Black residents of the "personal sacrifices" they must make when they decide to protest apartheid. The staff seems worried that in the case of the Law School, protests not enough of these sacrifices are being made. For the staff, the protests are simply "slumber parties" until police start cracking skulls. Only then, the staff feels, would the illegal sit-ins be justified. Only then do the protesters really show their unquestioned commitment to diversity, the majority believes...
While most Harvard students are savoring that last hour or two of peaceful slumber at this time of morning, a handful of dedicated individuals bundle up twice a week and head across the river to the Bright Hockey Center. The adventurers are not varsity hockey gods or Olympic skaters. These daring few head for the frosty ice of Bright to slide around, but more often, to simply fall down--hard...
...transforms itself into a 24-hour society, millions of people are trying to get by on six hours or less of slumber, leaving many of them chronically sleep deprived and mentally impaired. The loss of alertness can contribute to everything from poor grades in school to accidents at work...