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...memorial for the great view and to listen to reggae on his radio, hopes to be part of the solution. The past six years have been wasted because of the conflict, but next year he intends to start training as a primary school teacher. After searching in vain for a sponsor to pay for his tuition - he was knocked back by aid organizations - Buarobo says his fees will be paid by an "honorable man," his Malaitan M.P., Fred Fono. And why would he do that? "Because I voted for him," the earnest, clean-living Buarobo replies...
...SpongeBob represents idiocy,” he theorizes. “He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.” It is a simplisitic but recognizable world that is fun, original and comforting. And terribly funny...
...while activist groups such as SASSI-WOOF might help to raise exposure to Harvard’s discriminatory social scene this year, their effort will likely be in vain. Like Stop Withholding Access Today in the 1980s and the Radcliffe Women’s Action Coalition in the 1990s, SASSI-WOOF will likely find that it is really impossible for an outside group to change the system—no matter how vehemently female undergraduates protest...
Many in higher education argue that the nature of the subject being studied is irrelevant—critical thinking skills can be developed as long as the material is presented in the right way. While this may be true, it does not justify these vain attempts to derive meaning out of that which is meaningless. However much Gregg may argue on behalf of Lil’ Kim’s artistic relevance, the bottom line is that he’s wasting his student’s intellectual abilities on the lyrics of someone who became famous largely because...
...pounds and guineas/ But not your heart away… But I was one-and-twenty/ No use to talk to me.” Then there is a stanza break, and: “‘The heart out of the bosom/ Was never given in vain;/ ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty/ And sold for endless rue.’/ And I am two-and-twenty,/ And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.” It was all there, our overwrought, blinding grief, our callowness, our heartbreak that...