Word: soul
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Streisand's speech was both an aggressive repudiation of the ideology of Newt Gingrich and a reminder of the true attributes of liberalism. She began by claiming that the Republicans were "waging a war for the soul of America." Streisand attacked Republicans for their divisive politics of name-calling and intolerance and presented a more humane, inclusive agenda. She effectively challenged the Republican assault on artistic and cultural programs funded by the federal government and the artistic community in general...
...Jesse Jacobs guilty of murder in 1987. I learned only recently that the Texas prosecutors had changed their theory of who was directly responsible for the gunshot that murdered Urdiales. To say that I found that news troubling would be a great understatement. At Jacobs' trial, it required considerable soul-searching before I could confidently vote for the verdict and sentence of death that the jury rendered. The news of Jacobs' execution required me to repeat that process. Yet having now done so, I am again satisfied that Jacobs' verdict and sentence of death were appropriate. Jacobs was sentenced...
...acting, however, could hardly be improved upon. Especially fine are the performances of Jerome Preston Bates as Floyd, who makes us care about the tortured soul that lies beneath a veneer of strut and swagger; Viola Davis, an eloquent and unaffected Vera; and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who plays the sweet-natured, joyous Canewell as a sort of Mercutio to the lovers' Romeo and Juliet...
Katy Gibb is one of the better comic creations to come along in recent fiction, a moody, slovenly girl whose main weapon in life's wars is a brazen will. Bland, a decent soul at sea without his job, never does learn how she found out that the apartment across the hall from his was vacant during the tenants' vacation. She makes it her squat and him her quarry. Her national origin is never clear, nor does her array of vowel sounds provide much of a hint. But her spiritual roots are in California. She claims to be adept...
Michael P. Beys '94 was lambasted--and nearly impeached from his office as treasurer--for the financially disastrous De La Soul concert in the spring...