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...staff goes awry when it attempts to turn this ban into some grand, insensitive swipe at religious freedom rather than an understandable--if ineffective--precaution. Menorahs are dangerous. There were two incidents last semester in which makeshift menorahs started fires, and there is usually at least one such incident each year. Even a small fire can set off the sprinklers and cause tens of thousands of dollars of water damage; a large fire can be tragic. The staff writes that we should be treated as adults. As much as I enjoy autonomy, I don't feel like dying because...
Christopher did not hesitate to take a thinly-veiled swipe at Republicans in Congress who favor a more isolationist position...
...local food-distribution company. That and the idea that Dole can't beat Clinton "is a major problem," says Reynolds. "Of the others, Pat Buchanan has the true believers in tow, the types who'll vote even in a blizzard." Gramm too has significant local support, and his shopworn swipe at Dole's age ("I was a high school senior when he was in the Senate") tickled a crowd of about 70 people at Le Mars' Pantry Cafe last Friday...
...more standard of the two, a solid reading that pulls out the stops on an easily played organ. This is, after all, a soap opera of the had-I-but-known variety. All the Moor has to do is ask his wife's servant, "Pray, did thee swipe fair Desdemona's hankie?" and the misunderstanding is resolved as smoothly as any episode of Home Improvement. But then there would be little allurement in the role for some of this century's most dominant actors...
...need a campus hangout that stays open very late where we can use our swipe cards. Reducing the meal plan to seven meals per week with a 14-meal option to be used either at the dining halls (for those die-hard shells and sauce fans) or at various campus sandwich shops would allow students a choice in their food destinies...