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Techniques popular at All-Star squads have filtered into the tamer world of high school sideline cheer through camps, videos and the movie Bring It On, a cult favorite among high schoolers about cheerleading in California. But many schools prohibit the elaborate mounts, stunts, flying and dancing that All-Star squads work to perfect. And while the National Federation of State High School Associations annually updates its guidelines about safety, appropriate apparel and dance moves, it is up to communities to enforce them...
...they will be nothing more than sororities with a fancy name. Just look at some of the students outside the clubs on a Friday night; they act very similarly to the drunken frat boys at the Universities of Alabama or Texas (although they’re perhaps a bit tamer...
...Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) tries to effect a kind of Japanese magic realism, but is a much tamer and less venturesome writer. But novels such as Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood have been runaway best sellers, racking up sales in the millions, and his short stories have been published in prestigious American magazines such as The New Yorker. However, Sputnik Sweetheart (Kodansha International; 210 pages), the latest shot out of the Murakami cannon, sadly promises more than it can deliver and proves...
...normally do to relax." Not alcohol: that might take the edge off briefly, but the anxiety will return. Much better to try healthy anxiety reducers like deep breathing, exercise, yoga or meditation. A hot bath is also a good idea, and a cup of herbal tea like Tension Tamer can do just what it says...
...vastly different from Too Late. The song titles alone reveal as much: The list of tracks list is conspicuously devoid of such titles as “Fuck them” and “Asshole,” two tracks from Too Late. Lyrically, the songs are much tamer, and indicate a shift in focus towards some of punk music’s more marketable themes, like unrequited love, at the expense of the less saleable “fuck you” motif. As it turned out, the band’s new, more marketable sound paid...