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During the State of the Union speech this week, television viewers will see a familiar Capitol Hill tableau: a sober-faced Newt Gingrich sitting behind Bill Clinton. But the more intriguing and unfamiliar pairing will be up in the balcony, where Gingrich's wife Marianne will be sitting with country star Travis Tritt, Joan Shalikashvili, wife of the general, and...Jesse Jackson. Last week Newt extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech...
...within the departmental structure. Do I take a major I will enjoy, or one that is practical? Should I concentrate in a subject area that is easy for me and in which I am well-grounded, or one with which I will struggle and which is entirely unfamiliar...
...economics of record companies and beer. Members playfully attacked each other and the horn players danced around stage while the lead singer bounced in place with his gaudy clothes and unrealistically large smile, never missing a beat. Midway through the set, Reel Big Fish pleased even those audience members unfamiliar with its music with a cover of Operation Ivy's "Unity". The band's unique capability to appeal to newcomers was what made it successful; it didn't let a minute go by without entertaining an energized audience that eagerly awaited Goldfinger...
...activities tends to promote a very diverse atmosphere. However, students of the same ethnic group often tend to cling together and form communities which may be insular. Minority students in particular often seek to congregate in order to develop cultural bonds in a larger social setting which is often unfamiliar and sometimes hostile to them. One reason the Interethnic Day of Service was a good idea is that it facilitated interaction between students of various ethnicities...
Roby residents have reason to be suspicious of their good luck, which has been unfamiliar lately. Misfortunes have descended with biblical force: a three-year drought, a continuing plague of boll weevils and crashing cattle prices. Twenty-eight winners were farmers or ranchers, and three-fourths of them were in deep financial trouble. "In June they were fixing to come get our stuff," says Kathy Terry of the bankers who hold the notes on their farm. "We've kept it going only because we got a loan from my dad. My husband was already looking around for other work." Manuel...