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...fictionalized account of his disgrace and its aftermath with a central character named Stephen Glass. You might expect a legendary liar to have a gift for invention. "I am compulsively imaginative," the "fictional" Glass assures us. But you'd never know it from this wan novel about a pip-squeak Raskolnikov who wants everybody to love...
...other purveyors of soft money. But if money becomes equated with raw political expression, then wealthy individuals, by virtue of birth or choice of profession, get more free speech than others. Without the law, a Wall Street lawyer gets a booming voice capable of permanently drowning out the mere squeak a field hand in California can muster. If campaign contributions really are a form of free speech, then the status quo means “expression” for only the wealthiest of Americans...
...MUSIC. If that was the case, then it was the compact disc, which really took off in the mid-'80s, that brought the music industry back to life. Sure, you could hook your cassette recorder up to a CD player, but you couldn't copy that wonderful hiss-and-squeak-free digital fidelity--not yet. So everyone had to buy the Beatles and Beach Boys all over again. Result: a 15-year-long sales boom...
...Medicine,” and Pink’s “You Make Me Sick,” Harvard placed behind traditional powerhouses Towson University and UNC-Charlotte. UMass-Amherst, which entered the final round seeded third with Harvard, managed to squeak by with its final routine to garner a third place finish overall...
...league matches of the day , the Crimson skewered Dartmouth’s club team, but only managed to squeak by a more experienced Brown varsity squad...