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...Butt Trumpet's more endearing qualities is its ability to rank on popular culture from all perspectives. They successfully fulfill their attempt at vicious comedy with songs such as "I Left my Gun in San Francisco," which is about killing hippies, sung from the point of view of the killer. Thom Bone, one of several loud bass players, warns all Birkenstock-wearers, "I'm an easy going guy/but I'm even more mellow when hippies...
...through no fault of its own, a pitifully weak mandate. The College has not granted the council enough power to make it more than the bickering, glorified dance committee that it presently is. Its ex officio memberships in College committees are strictly advisory, yet the ridiculous scandals and vicious counter-accu-sations that dominate council politics undermine any credibility any-way. The ineffectual, non-binding resolutions that the council passes on any issue of consequence--like ROTC, the structure of the College, or the search for the new dean--come across as bloated, bombastic and ineffectual squeals. Moreover, the council...
...negotiations are caught in a vicious circle. For the Palestinians, the key issue is what was promised in the 1993 accord: moving Israeli troops out of West Bank towns and opening the way for Palestinian elections. Arafat told Rabin that his mandate must be extended throughout the territories. But Rabin is in no mood to withdraw the army from areas where Israeli settlers need protection...
Maggie catches a break when she meets Jorge (Vladimir Vega), a gentle Paraguayan refugee. But as they try to create their own family, Maggie's past haunts them. So does her bad temper. Brutalized as a child, she has a vicious streak and a suspicion of Jorge's goodness. Any man who doesn't strike her--and strike out at the system she believes oppresses her--well, he can't be a real man, can he? Heroically, Jorge endures Maggie's depressions, rages and physical abuse. All he can do is love...
Students will eventually enroll in classes and everything will be cosmetically cured until this vicious cycle begins agains next semester, and students realize that they could have taken a course for concentration credit while the one which they did take doesn't count for anything and wasn't a good idea anyway. But since no one explained the options to them while they were brooding over which classes to take, it is the students who suffer...