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Remarkably, this turn-around in attitude had coincided with the hockey team's lousy season. Sure, these academically responsible editors may have mercilessly besieged their hockey reporters all season long with righteous snivelling to the tune of, "What the hell is wrong with the hockey team? I thought you said we were going to be good...
...purse is filled with money, he accused his black opponent, Mel Reynolds, of receiving more than $26,000 in contributions from pro-Israel political-action committees or from individual Jewish donors who were members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "He who pays the piper calls the tune," said Savage. "Where did he get all that money?" Attended by security men from the organization of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Savage read at length from a list of Reynolds supporters with Jewish-sounding names...
...Their peers are more in tune with their needs and their feelings," says Michelle B. Fontaine '90, co-director of PCC. She says that the group's counselees who have tried both types of counseling almost always say that they prefer student counse-100 percent sure that they will not raise...
Political analyst William Schneider predicts that Democrats "won't stop talking about schemes until they come up with a theme and find someone who can make music." The only Democrat who can carry a tune is Mario Cuomo, but he is too liberal to pass the D.L.C. entrance exam, and since his inspiring "City on the Hill" speech at the 1984 convention, he has been reluctant to sing before a national audience. D.L.C. stalwarts like Bentsen, Al Gore and Robb have tin ears. Nunn's libretto -- defense and national-security policy -- seems increasingly irrelevant for a world rushing toward peace...
...elements of House Party are familiar from a zillion youth movies: the boy who sneaks out to a teen hop, the school punks who spit out threats, the nice girl our hero flirts with and the even nicer one he winds up with. Lots of wit in the pop-tune lyrics; too much raw-mouthed slurring of women and homosexuals in the dialogue. The difference here is that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking...