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...quiet, invisible graduates of business schools. The last convicted felon to be spotted by a local columnist on the Strip was Michael Milken, the junk-bond king. "What this town needs," says Bob Stupak, the crusty owner of Vegas World, "is that scent of vice, a little sin, to stir that desire to come to Las Vegas...
...from President Clinton to the politically and religiously active communities at Harvard. How dare we sit back and proclaim with self-assurance that our ceremonies, will prevent--and indeed, are currently preventing--genocide from taking place again? Until we assure that genocide is not happening anywhere, until our reminders stir us to action, our ceremonies will be in vain...
Western experts do not dispute the President's claims entirely. But Egypt would face a fundamentalist threat even if Iran and Sudan did not exist. Homegrown poverty, overpopulation, poor housing and rampant corruption would almost certainly stir radicalism and unrest without any agitation from outside...
...Pennsylvania (14-0 Ivy, 22-4 overall)--Best of the Best III. Then again, Best of the Best II is terrible. Come to think of it, the original Best of the Best is a bout as good as the six-week old Zesty Broccoli Tofu Stir-Fry HDS dishes up every now and then...
...academy as a comfortable, clubby home to poets, and poetry as a "modestly upwardly mobile, middle class profession--not as lucrative as waste management or dermatology, but several big steps above the squalor of bohemia." With lines like these, is it any wonder the title essay caused such a stir...