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...feels good to be in Dallas," Dole said last Wednesday. "Good to be among friends.'' Don't worry. Sooner or later the G.O.P. front runner will visit your state and feel good about being there too. That's what running to lead the world's most powerful nation is all about. And for the third time, that is what Bob Dole is trying...
...According to Jorge Garces, a street performer with the Peruvian folk music group Inca Sun, street performance is a much more common profession in his native South America. "For us it is a tradition," he explains. Indeed, from Homer to Spanish gypsies, minstrelsy may be the civilized world's third-oldest profession--after, of course, prostitution and law. Unfortunately, says Ned Landin, a street performer known to his following as "Flathead," street performance is about as venerated in the United States as numbers one and two. "Here you get bumped into being a street person. Not that there's anything...
...loving, knowing observation of Grady and his world is the novel's greatest strength. When he does not attempt to philosophize, Chabon pulls off his comic stunts with grace, and we can't help but applaud. Wonder Boys is a successful and clever second novel, and it leaves us looking forward to Chabon's third...
Squash is only a drop in Henrie's conversational pool. He can, and is willing to, discuss anything from his favorite movies, The Third Man and Lion in Winter, to cryptocatholicism and his theory of "Lockean Glasses"--he believes John Locke is responsible for the way in which we see the world. Sam J. Rascoff '96 became a "devotee" of Henrie's when he was a freshman. "While a professor has instructed me in a set of discreet material," Rascoff says, "Mark has shaped my taste in the higher sense...
Continuum Record's most recent ska compilation Ska: The Third Wave, although probably unnecessary for any die-hard fan, is for other audiences a valuable introduction to the wonderful world of ska. It features fourteen songs from ten bands, including songs from such legendary acts as The Toasters and The Scofflaws...