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Council President David L. Hanselman '94-'95, who has endorsed Randall A. Fine '96 as his successor, says that if Coffey ascends to the presidency, the campus life committee will suffer...
Quite understandably, Geddes is becalmed with writer's block. Becalmed with impotence too, though the beautiful Victoria, a collector of lovers, works tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...
People claim that after these strikes and lockouts end, enthusiasm for the sport will wane and attendance will drop off dramatically. That is ridiculous. Hockey attendance may suffer a little at first, but the true fans, the people you want there anyway, will show...
Isabella Rosselini and Valeria Golino, who play two of Beethoven's mistresses, suffer the similar fate of not having much to do. The audience is lead to belive, as Schindler does, that one of them is the "immortal beloved," and director Rose wastes a great deal of time with boring subplots concerning their lives...
...wasn't this turmoil -- especially the rebellion in Chiapas -- itself an outgrowth of NAFTA? It's true that farmers there will suffer as protective trade barriers fall. But a deeper source of their discontent is sheer, longstanding poverty. And it's no coincidence that Chiapas, Mexico's poorest region, is also farthest from the U.S. and the balming effect of trade. The unrest of Mexican peasants is undeniably a reminder that free trade's overall benefits entail real costs, but it's equally a reminder that the alternative is worse. In a thoroughly protectionist world, all of Mexico might today...