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...behavior this spring break (didn't "go anywhere", lots of "popular culture" some anxiety about my lack of role models, survival on groceries charged to my parents' Food Emporium courtesy card), I doubtless comprise a member of the "Reality Bites" target audience. Like so many to those who surround me, I am young, bright and disenchanted without really knowing with what or why. I can't watch "Oprah" or "House of Style" without making cynical comments: wisecracks culled form my vastly broad, yet miserably shallow vocab...
...attempt to limit the freedom to choose a house has an insulting and paternalistic aspect. In effect, the College would be saying that, if left alone, students will surround themselves with carbon copies of their "type." It denies that students may have the character and maturity to find a good mix of difference and similarity in their social interactions...
...where nothing else works. Charles Manso has sold ice cream and sundries for 20 years from a battered white truck on a desolate corner in northeast Washington, an area without grocery stores, barbershops, even Laundromats. "There used to be shootings all the time," he says. "Drug dealers used to surround my truck. The Muslims keep them away...
Suspicions about Harding's role surround a failed plan that predated the Jan. 6 attack in Detroit. Three of the arrested men -- Eckardt; hit man Shane Stant, 22; and getaway driver Derrick Smith, 29 -- have told investigators that during the final days of 1993, they conspired with Gillooly to attack Kerrigan while she trained at the Tony Kent Arena on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. An 11-page affidavit, prepared by the Multnomah County sheriff's office in Oregon and made public last week, states that Eckardt initially claimed that Harding did not know about the plot. But under two days...
...only topic on which he does seem to open up is that of the controversy and criticism which surround Oliver Stone and his movies. When asked if he anticipates a critical attack on Stone and "Heaven and Earth", Jones chuckles, "Don't you?" Insistent that he "knows nothing of [movie marketing] vogues, trends or fads," Jones claims that he and Stone, "try to make movies that will walk on their own legs, stand and fall on their own merits." Does he think Americans are ready to see another film dealing with the Vietnam War? "Those issues are pretty much obviated...