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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Tue Apr 12 04:38:02 1994
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 04:37:09 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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dagoura (Vanessa Layne):
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ericding (Eric J. Ding):
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|| And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for
|||||| My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most
|| gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power
|| of Christ may rest upon me.
/^^\ - 2 Cor. 12:9
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jberman (Jesse M Berman):
WELCOME TO MIT ... where the biggest news is that I'm growing my beard again.
If I'm not logged in, try "finger @pilate.mit.edu" or "talk @pilate.mit.edu".
Please send fan mail, hate mail, prayer requests, whatever to jberman@mit.edu.
More often than not, I can usually be found sleeping in Senior House A402B-1...
No matter who you are, no matter what you do
There's only one thing I ask of you
And that's if you pray, then when you pray,
Be naked pray, pray naked babe.
Seventy Sevens, "Nang I Namaj Perez"
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lsc (Lecture Series Committee):
LSC Movies for the week of Apr 15 to Apr 17
Fri. Apr 15 My Life [PG-13] 26-100 7 & 10
The video diary of an ad executive (Michael Keaton) who has just found
out that he is going to die. Adding to his pain is the fact that his
wife (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant with their first child. Keaton reflects
on his life in video sessions, the life lessons he is leaving to the son
he may never see: How to Shave (up, down, never sideways), Sex
(silence)...
Sat. Apr 16 The Secret Garden [G] 26-100 7 & 10
In this film based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's book,
a little girl, suddenly orphaned, finds herself at a lonely English
manor with her reclusive guardian after having lived in India for all
her life. Mary then finds a garden which opens her eyes to the world
around her, and through the garden, she brings life back into the heart
of a boy, his father, and the castle in which they live.
Sun. Apr 17 The Name of the Rose [R] 10-250 7 & 10
Sean Connery plays a 14th-century monk who clashes with the Inquisition.
While attending a theologians' convention, he becomes distracted with an
intriguing murder case. His attempt to solve it threatens his life and
his order's existence as he defends a group of heretics against the
Inquisition. Also stars F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) and Christian
Slater.
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mjdaly (Mark J Daly):
Strat '93 Standings (update Apr 11 - noon)
San Francisco 6 2 - .750
Houston 3 1 1.0 ---
Atlanta 0 0 2.0 ---
Boston 0 0 2.0 ---
NY Yankees 0 0 2.0 ---
Philadelphia 0 0 2.0 ---
Toronto 0 0 2.0 ---
Texas 3 5 3.0 .375
Seattle 4 8 4.0 .333
This Season: each team plays 4-game series at home and away against
every other team
Series results (home on right, away across top - home team score first):
Atl Bos Hou NYY Phi SF Sea Tex Tor
Atl ***
Bos ***
Hou ***
NYY ***
Phi ***
SF ***
Sea 1-3 1-3 *** 2-2
Tex 1-3 ***
Tor ***
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
It's rather odd; lately I've been feeling like everything
has crashed and nothing is all right anymore; it's like
a street after a bunch of cars have collided. Only then
I realize that this has been going on all along....
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I'm wet and I'm cold
But thank God I ain't old
I should have split home at fifteen
Why didn't I ever say what I mean?
There's a story that the grass is so green,
What did I see?
Where have I been?
-- The Who,
"Sea and Sand"
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I read the news today, oh boy,
About a lucky man who made the grade,
And though the news was rather sad,
Well, I just had to laugh.
I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car,
He didn't notice that the lights have changed,
A crowd of people stood and stared,
They've seen his face before,
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.
I saw a film today, oh boy,
The English army had just won the war,
A crowd of people turned away,
But I just had a look,
Having read a book,
I'd love to turn...
you...
on...
Woke up, fell out of bed,
dragged a comb across my head,
found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
and looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat,
made the bus in seconds flat,
found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
and somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I heard the news today, oh boy,
four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire,
and though the holes were rather small,
they had to count them all,
now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall,
I'd love to turn...
you...
on....
-- The Beatles,
"A Day in the Life"
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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place
that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
You may *think* there is, but once you get there, when
you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write
"Fuck you" right under your nose. Try it sometime. I
think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a
cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say
"Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was
born and what year I died, and then right under that
it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact.
-- J. D. Salinger,
"The Catcher in the Rye"
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the Bay,
Brings you back the same day, Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the Bay,
Brings you back the same day, Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary.
Along the coast you'll hear them boast,
About a light they say that shines so clear.
So raise your glass we'll drink a toast,
To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier.
He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way he's gonna go.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
He'll take you up, he'll bring you down.
He'll plant your feet back on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low, Timothy Leary.
He'll fly his astral plane.
He'll take you trips around the Bay.
He'll bring you back the same day, Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary, Timothy Leary...
"Legend of a Mind"
IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORDS
The Moody Blues
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rnewman (Ron Newman):
Home address: 18 Day St. #310, Somerville MA 02144
Home phone: (617) 628-8895.
Office: MIT Media Lab, Room E15-468b, phone (617) 252-1705.
This editorial appears in _The Nation_, April 25, 1994. I added
some extra paragraph breaks for readability. Any typos are mine.
No Mercy
The case of the American teenager sentenced in Singapore to six lashes
of a brine-soaked rattan cane for crimes of spray-painting and petty
vandalism reveals more about American attitudes than about Singapore
justice. For years, the tight little island-state has been a model of
authoritarian rule, where possession of marijuana can be a capital
crime and possession of chewing gum and failure to flush a public
toilet are punishable by a heavy fine.
And then there are the pesky problems of civil rights and liberties:
one-party rule, repression of dissent, curbs on freedoms of the press
and assembly, restrictions on labor organizing, detentions without
charge or trial, and brutal methods of police interrogation near unto
torture. Naturally the government bars Amnesty International and
other human rights organizations from operating on the island.
All that has been extensively reported by the world press. What has
been eye-opening is the approval rating Singapore-style fascism gets
from the American public. Michael Fay's parents have mounted a
campaign to gain a reprieve from their son's sentence of caning--no
mere whip of a birch but a torturous punishment administered by a
martial-arts master and often resulting in shock and lasting scars.
An Ohio Congressman joined the campaign, and President Clinton voiced
disapproval of the punishment.
But Fay has found little support from his fellow Americans, who
usually like to think of themselves as humane and compassionate. Mail
pouring into the office of Ohio Representative Tony Hall demands not
clemency but the lash. Similarly, the newspaper in Fay's hometown of
Dayton reports sentiment running strongly in favor of flogging, and
polls suggest wide support for the pain option.
It may have been ever thus, but something seems to have snapped
recently in the American political psyche, that screening device that
used to suppress the public expression of mean-spirited attitudes.
Perhaps the thoughts were always there--the yearning for the death
penalty, the hunger for revenge against the "criminal element", the
anger at insubordination--but they were kept in check in the interests
of a more civil society.
The poisonous example set by successive American administrations in
brutalizing mutinous or "unproductive" peoples abroad and at home
cannot have helped create an era of good feeling. Nor can this
country offer credible or effective criticism of practices in places
such as Singapore, whose economy is intricately connected to American
interests and whose regime has been supported since its inception by
U.S. policy. With old restraints having failed--not only in this
country but in what used to be thought of as the civilized world--the
fiends are suddenly on the loose, and they mock the meaning of
civilization itself.
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therese (Therese):
So I'm walking through the desert
and I'm not frightened although it's hot
I have all that I requested
and I do not want what I haven't got
- Sinead O'Connor
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yandros (Chad Phillip Brown):
``[Web] Surf Nazis Must Die!!!''
<a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/yandros/home_page.html">chad</a>
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