Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serf'n Turf, to regroup. There, Sasha Nidiot (a Cliff Clavin parody played by Nick Gordon '95), informs us that it's nice to be where everybody knows your name. And we learn that Dusty Yevsky, a local cowboy and poet, has a crush on a singing cow, Bess Western ("But soft," Mr. Yevsky exclaims passionately, "what light from yonder bovine breaks." Sadly, Ms. Western has her doubts. "I don't feel right dating someone who's higher up on the food chain," she demurs...
Even the worst jokes, though, are carried off brilliantly by the cast. Several members are especially deserving of praise. Hasty Pudding Vice President Aaron Zelman '95, who plays Ms. Western, makes a convincing cow. He sings a stirring and hysterical medley of songs, ranging from "It had to be moo," through "Like a bovine, milked for the very first time," to "USDA" (the latter sung to the tune of the Village People's "YMCA...
...work permits. The fees range from $1,520 for Mauritanians and $1,160 for Malians down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings for a ticket home. Said Tankara Ibrahima, a merchant who disembarked at Abidjan to continue overland to Mali: ``They were not nice about the new decision. They did not treat us well...
...most conservative government estimates, the cost of the campaign thus far has topped $1.2 billion and will grow as a protracted guerrilla war looms. Compounding purely monetary woes is a breakdown in confidence that Russia can succeed in becoming a member of the family of democratic, market-oriented countries. Western governments are increasingly hesitant to aid an administration that makes war on its own citizens. ``If things continue in Chechnya, then investment--and of course economic support as well--will be automatically withheld,'' warned German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel earlier this year...
...government is backsliding on economic reform. First there was Vladimir Polevanov, the ex-apparatchik named by Yeltsin to manage privatization, who instead announced a return to state ownership. Yeltsin fired him, but Polevanov's views are held by others. ``He wasn't a lonely voice out there,'' cautions a Western official...