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Some of the attrition rate is due to nothing more than natural change in academic interests, but some blame bad teaching and an unwritten agenda to "weed out" the less talented students...
These days the skittery, danceable Caribbean musical genre known as ska comes in many forms, from the often entertaining punk-ska of groups such as Unwritten Law and Mephiskapheles to the chart-topping pop-ska of outfits like No Doubt. That's why Right on Time (Hellcat/Epitaph), a new album by the Los Angeles-based group Hepcat, is so refreshing: it returns the sound of ska to the warm Caribbean harbor of its origin. This isn't music for slam dancing; instead, Right on Time features songs for romance. The tracks on this album have the lean, classic lines...
...while, they persuade him to mount the standard campaign of dealmaking, double-talk and false promises, until Hepburn brings him back to his senses and to her. But at that point he drops out of the race. Daring or not, State of the Union played by the unwritten rule: A movie can argue that an errant husband may have his virtues (especially if remorse turns out to be one of them), but it has to stop short of letting tainted goods into the White House...
...fall into an awkward category. We met them in some situation that we would either like to forget or believe that all normal people have already forgotten, and we therefore aren't allowed to talk to them. And after avoiding eye contact with them for a year or more, unwritten rules forbid us from ever smiling at them again--and we would never in a million years think of asking them their names or reminding them of ours...
Epps, in a recent interview, gave an unwritten promise he would "never censor The Crimson...