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...away. Drugs were devouring minds, crime was destroying families, poverty was gnawing at souls. Then in May 1992, Jones' brother and best friend were shot on the same night. His brother survived, his friend died, and Jones knew he had to do something with his life. "That was a wake-up call for me," he says...
...WAKE-UP CALL--APRIL...
...plight of HASCS is not a secret. The University has been notified numerous times of the desperate needs. The most recent wake-up call was a January memo to the members of the FAS committee on information technology. In that memo, Director Richard S. Steen called HASCS "a ship taking on water faster than it can bail out." He argued that the failure of the University to provide the needed resources was being reflected in low morale...
...hoping that this tournament is a wake-up call for all of us," Kilfara said. "The Ivy Championships are a week from Saturday. We have nine days to get ready...
...appropriate, then, that the third songs on both sides are startling wake-up calls. "XXX" scarily suggests that maybe prostitution and normal romance aren't so far apart after all: "I feel like candy/I'll go out on the street and make some money/That was just a joke/About the money:/You're going to pay me with your life." That's the chorus: it comes around at least three times, and by the third time the "joke" has become a real threat. It's not a threat of literal violence at all, but the threat that the girl...