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Costin Scalise pitched a low-stress, team sensibility to the Palos Verdes, Calif. standout and helped sway her from a probable matriculation at California. Since then, Kory has accumulated a most impressive swimming resume...
...ourselves as heroic expanders of the frontier and innocents who fight evil," she says. "All of that cold war fervor that drove the old westerns has lifted, so you can do more complex and interesting westerns." At a time when gritty urban realism and literal-minded docudramas hold sway, westerns are a refreshing departure. They provide escape, but also a chance to confront issues of universal significance and spiritual weight: a history lesson, but also a reminder of the imaginative power of myth and allegory. All that and a lot of pretty scenery...
...next School Committee is composed of thefour incumbents who sought reelection--twoIndependents and two CCA-endorsed--as well as onenewcomer from each political camp. The mayor, asthe chair and seventh member of the committee,will likely sway the otherwise balanced group tothe left...
...virtually the only major democratic state that gives serious sway to the free-market or libertarian paradigm on speech issues. This is outmoded, I think. New Right intellectuals--and those they influence--utilize hate-speech as part of a cynical manipulation of the insecurities, anger, and confusion that are fundamental to postmodern life. Mansfield and his hate-speech are, I believe, very much the "business of the university," to quote Prof. Warren Goldfarb who differs with me on this. Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government
...will be even more difficult because Quebec is its own section. Ontario, Quebec's powerful and unified neighbor (98 of its 99 representatives are Liberals) will constantly be at loggerheads with the Quebecois on national and regional issues. Furthermore, those 98 votes give Ontario's caucus alone enough sway to tangle with the Bloc Quebecois and the Reform Party all by itself...