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...campaign's organizers--an adhoc committee of about 10 students, including Danganan--have been e-mailing a "senior pledge" to personal and student group mailing lists in an attempt to sway the entire graduating class to consider the social ramifications of their careers and the companies they join...
...compositions that expand both BFF's sound (string arrangements accompany their trademark piano/bass/drum combination) and their identity. Sure, "punk rock for sissies" was a fun label for their often-silly post-kitsch nods to pissed-off ex-boyfriends and love-struck goofballs, but it hardly accommodates the stylish, lingering sway delivered here. The grandiose sweep of "Narcolepsy" leads into a series of cool, ruminative ballads echoing the mellow-sweet classical pop of Bacharach and Rundgren. Folds blends everything from the country-western atheistic lament "Mess" to the lovely, disaffected suite of "Hospital Song," "Army," "Your Redneck Past" and "Regrets...
...Alexander and Ben Nighthorse Campbell, directly addressed the responsibility of parents, but stopped short of blaming these particular parents. Such specificity of guilt is uncomfortable for America, which prefers vague, generalized culprits less offensive to its smiley-face sensibilities -- and where tales of childhood beating are somehow supposed to sway the jury in the trial of Charles Ng, who tortured and murdered 11 people. Thus such intangibles as the Internet, Goth culture and "The Basketball Diaries" (which was pulled from video store shelves Thursday by MGM) will all take their lumps, as Ozzy Osbourne and "Natural Born Killers" did before...
These kind of advertisements, whether true or not (usually not), generally sway the voters. 95 percent of the candidates running for Congress this year who outspent their opponents won their seat. One of the few exceptions was Wisconsin, where the voters said, "Give us our government back...
According to Chao, 91 percent of first-years surveyed Wednesday said they would like to see a similar program in the Yard. Chao said he hopes these results will sway the FDO toward allowing more box installations...