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...must be a Democrat—a dues-paying one—to vote.” Her successor Sonia H. Kastner ’03, agrees: “Non-Democrats are not free to join the club.” In these strong and sober statements, they seem to take themselves a bit too seriously, as if membership in their campus club requires some ceremonial Solemn and Binding Oath to the Party...
...repeating it. Hours after De Chastelain?s report was released, Protestant paramilitaries continued their attacks on Catholic homes. The weapons of choice, pipe bombs built from parts in any hardware shop, are too easy to make for them ever to be effectively decommissioned. For Northern Ireland, it was a sober reminder that taking away arms may not remove the will to kill...
...handicap for this Administration is that it has no credible uniformed stalwart to make the case for the war on a daily basis-as Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf did during the Gulf War. And so the sober, 69-year-old Rumsfeld has become the Administration's go-to guy. With Dick Cheney mostly at his undisclosed location, Rumsfeld is the government's resident grownup, an acerbic spokesman who can convey condescension and playfulness in the same breath, as he did last week when chiding a reporter for "beginning with an illogical premise and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical...
...warning tends to incite panic--so darkly imaginative does the mind become when it attempts to embrace the unembraceable. Cervantes said "fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies." He was really referring to that transitional state when fear, which is a sober and potentially useful attitude, becomes something out of control and wildly dangerous...
Bright, friendly and French, Metro bends the buck of the humble crawler. For $8.50 have a Metropolitan with Grey Goose or sample any number of beers which are unpronounceable while even sober. Wine, pastries and a bottle of Dom for $179—“If you have the means, I highly recommend it.” (From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. If you didn’t recognize it, watch it again...