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Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, Suzanne Vega, Cowboy Junkies, Midnight Oil, Jane's Addiction...
...fund the council's bank account. Many suggested that it was the organization's diastrous attempts to deal with political issues, such as the much-protested attempt to bring ROTC back to campus in 1989. Others thought it might be botched council projects, like the financially disastrous 1989 Suzanne Vega concert. Still others suggested the council's institutional ineptitude, exemplified by its failure to achieve a quorum at several meetings in the spring...
...unauthorized sampling ends in discord. Tom's Diner, an a cappella tune by Suzanne Vega, had been known only to fans who owned her 1987 album, Solitude Standing. Then late last year a couple of audacious remix artists who call themselves DNA sampled Vega's voice and grafted it onto a throbbing beat. Vega liked the new version so much that she asked her record company to release it. The resulting Top Five single was the surprise...
...past, the council has lost money on most of its concerts. Last year's Ziggy Marley concert was a $10,000 loss, and the 1989 Suzanne Vega concert cost the council upwards...
...have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, a devoted Old Etonian remembered for his play along the Wall, was scheduled to come down...