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...worth paying eight dollars to go see, but it's good enough to warrant renting it and rounding out the rest of the ticket price with a nice pint of Swiss Almond Haagen Daaz. Split the cost with friends. The best of both worlds, the perfect 24 hours. Sleep-overs with your girls filled with Ricki-Lake-style outbursts of "Leave him" and "Should've stabbed her when you had the chance"'s, followed by righteous indignation after confronting your male peers in the morning about the illnesses of patriarchy. Better yet, call the boys up in the middle...
...last big year for the power ballad was 1990, when big-haired Warrant hit it big with the brash "Cherry Pie"; Poison returned with the sadder "Something to Believe In"; Heart, one of few female bands in the power ballad business, released "Stranded"; Ted Nugent's Damn Yankees proved they had the genre down with the top 10 hit "High Enough"; Winger's second album sold millions on the strength of the forgotten "Miles Away," and the Nelson twins teamed up to bring us "Love and Affection" and "After the Rain...
...post-war recession of the early '90s, so too did arena rock fall off the map. Nirvana stormed the music scene in 1991, bringing Seattle grunge to the rest of the country and making alternative suddenly mainstream. By 1993, Winger, Damn Yankees and Bad English had disbanded, and Warrant, Poison and Nelson had fallen off the map entirely. Pushing them aside were bands like Pearl Jam, the Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden and the Smashing Pumpkins, turning the airwaves from a place of possibility and power--where our average triumphs were transformed into something greater--into one of alienation and anger...
Stores like Bread and Circus have refused to sign the pledge for more than a year, insisting, despite documented evidence to the contrary, that conditions in the fields do not warrant complaint. As students, we can work to effect change by going in delegations to these stores to get them to sign the pledge and by discussing the issue with Harvard Dining Services. Despite our distance from the strawberry fields, our efforts in Cambridge can have a direct, meaningful and beneficial impact on the UFW's efforts...
...besieged officials with claims that "racist" doctors at the University of Kentucky had kidnapped and killed his mother-in-law, who died last year of cancer. When the article disclosed that the increasingly threatening Bob Jones was Bob Higgins, the police moved quickly to serve him with the outstanding warrant...