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(02/11/97 11:00am)
I read "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Playboy Bunny" when I was about 13 and agreed with Gloria Steinem's clever insights during her undercover operation in America's sex and porn industry, which these days may have earned her a lawsuit similar to the one Food Lion threw at ABC. And so it was with great relish that I read her recent editorial in the New York Times, "Hollywood Cleans Up Hustler," in which she directs her scathing criticism at the movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt," produced by Oliver Stone and directed by Milos Forman.
(01/22/97 11:00am)
What a nuisance for Bill Clinton. Not only did he have to go to the trouble of campaigning for reelection this past year and fighting those nasty Whitewater probes, but now he may have to go to court. Last Monday morning he sent his lawyer, Robert Bennett, best known for representing bigoted Cincinnati Reds Owner Marge Schott, to ask the Supreme Court to give him a special exemption from the very law he swore to uphold when he took office in 1992.
(10/21/96 9:00am)
In Wednesday night's second presidential debate, President Bill Clinton responded to several of Senator Bob Dole's policy challenges by saying "I don't have time in thirty seconds to fix all that."
(10/07/96 9:00am)
To borrow a phrase from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), do you count yourself among "[President Bill Clinton's] high taxing, free-spending, promise-breaking, Social Security-taxing, health care-socializing, drug-coddling, power-grabbing, business-busting, lawsuit-loving, U.N. following, F.B.I.-abusing, I.R.S.-increasing, $200 hair-cutting, gas-taxing, over-regulating, bureaucracy-trusting, class-baiting, privacy-violating, values-crushing, truth-dodging, Medicare-forsaking, property-rights-taking, job-destroying friends?" If so, you may not have watched last night's first presidential debate.
(09/26/96 9:00am)
In the last few weeks before returning to Dartmouth, I had the misfortune of attending a local Republican rally with my father who is running for local office. Political events of this sort are generally tolerable -- eat fried chicken, smile, nod, say "It's a school in New Hampshire" a few thousand times, leave.
(09/25/96 9:00am)
Americans read Joe Klein's piece in Newsweek on how to capture the "radical middle." Candidates seek the center. Polls show Americans want moderation. Presidential hopefuls that seem above the realm of politics, notably Colin Powell, remain in the forefront.
(05/16/96 9:00am)
He calls former friend Clinton an "amiable windsock." No, it is not Dole. He has suggested he would jump into the '96 Presidential race if the circumstances were right. It is not Powell either. The newest face on the political horizon is Richard Lamm, three-time former governor of Colorado, current lecturer at the University of Denver and Ross Perot's choice to be the Reform Party of California's nominee to challenge Dole and Clinton. Jonathan Alter of Newsweek suggested he may be a "sacrificial Lamm" lured into the race to give the appearance that it is "open" before Perot is anointed and takes the helm. But that may not be the case both because Perot has stepped aside before and because Lamm is in a better position to become the truthteller who will make Clinton and Dole face the future.
(04/24/96 9:00am)
Gregory Richards, in "It's Time to Kick the Oil Habit," [The Dartmouth, April 22] rightly points out that our dependency on oil imports from the Middle East increases our trade deficit, damages the environment, and also pushes our finite oil reserves to exhaustion. The solution, he argues, is to take advantage of those alternative sources of energy which are "ready when we are" and to use as little energy as possible. Richards correctly identifies what should be done to ameliorate the multiple problems, but his analysis overlooks the essential element of any alternative to oil -- cost-effectiveness.
(04/02/96 10:00am)
I was sitting on the train in Berlin minding my own business and listening to snippets of German. The man next to me was reading the "Berliner Zeitung." When he flipped back to the front page, I gasped in surprise because there it was, albeit in German -- Pat Buchanan had won New Hampshire.
(11/20/95 11:00am)
I am voting for Michael Douglas. No doubt about it. Sure, he doesn't have the military record or objectivity of Colin Powell. But thank God he's not Bob Dole, who is still figuring out why he wants to be coronated, or, excuse me, why he wants to run. Michael Douglas if rather perfect. His "American President" is the dream President of that Democratic majority. He is the man Clinton was supposed to be but clearly is not.
(11/08/95 11:00am)
Arianna Huffington rose from the ashes of her husband's embarrassing 1995 attempt to buy a California Senate seat to publicly trash one of her husband's hardest campaigners -- Bob Dole. She authored two editorials last month in the Wall Street Journal, one ironically entitled, "The Presidency Is No Entitlement."
(10/23/95 10:00am)
The Mobil Corp. proclaimed the "good news that the sky is not falling" in an recent advertisement in many national magazines last week. Don't worry, they tell those of us who are plagued by a twinge a guilt every time we use that extra napkin at Collis, because "the cycle of decline in the quality of our environment can be broken and, despite what some of the environmentalists are claiming, great strides have already been taken to improve our situation." They point to a recent book by Gregg Easterbrook "A Moment on Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism" to support their claim that things are improving.
(10/09/95 10:00am)
At Saturday night's screening of "To Die For," Joyce Maynard introduced the screen version of her novel with the comment, "I'm glad the movie is opening this week ... I wrote this before O.J. and Joey Buttafuoco and Lorena Bobbitt and all their friends ... This movie is about all of that." I relaxed in my seat and waited to see the next "Pulp Fiction." I expected a clever screen play offering insightful critique on our sometimes bizarre modern culture.
(10/03/95 10:00am)
You forgot to return those books to the reserve desk, and now you owe $20. Do you tell yourself that "When I am involved in what I am reading, I often forget when it is due," or do you tell yourself that "I was so preoccupied with writing the report that I forgot to return the book." If you picked the latter statement, you might count yourself among those with a higher 'E.Q.'
(09/25/95 10:00am)
Americansread Joe Klein's piece in Newsweek on how to capture the "radical middle." Candidates seek the center. Polls show that Americans want moderation. Presidential hopefuls that seem above the realm of politics, notably Colin Powell, remain in the forefront.Meanwhile, the budget battle being waged on Capital Hill stands in marked contrast to everyone's concern with the middle ground, a reminder that politics must intrude into reality for progress to occur in our country.
(09/19/95 9:00am)
Retired General Colin Powell came to a crossroads last week as his 25-city book tour began. National publications bill him as a presidential hopeful, but Powell, the political man of the moment, has yet to declare a bid for the office.
(08/14/95 9:00am)
Inthe 1930s, artists produced murals andcanvases depicting a nation struggling to wrench itself from the grip of the Great Depression. The Public Works Administration provided these artists with the money to both survive the Depression and produce art. The program provided for one of the most prolific periods of American art, but Congress and the public denounced the artists during the McCarthy era, viewing the vast majority of their art as "Communist." Artists were no longer employed to paint murals in public buildings or sculpt statues for the public to enjoy. Their murals were whitewashed, canvases burned and statues broken apart. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities might meet the same fate as the PWA, with Senator Jesse Helms replacing Senator Joseph McCarthy as the overseer of their destruction.
(08/04/95 9:00am)
"Write about what a bunch of whiners you all are," one of my professors advised me. "Your generation needs a good kick in the pants." What this professor was telling me was certainly not something I hadn't heard before. My last employer, at the ripe old age of 34, informed me, "What you kids need is a good war to make you more appreciative." Even my grandmother rolls her eyes when I begin to lament about my lack of clothes, a car or the latest CD. Yet she continues to take handfuls of straws and napkins from McDonald's even though I have repeatedly reminded her that we are no longer living in the Great Depression.
(07/25/95 9:00am)
Affirmative action affords qualified minority candidates the opportunity to participate in programs that are well within their ability, but have been denied to them purely on the basis of their skin color. Yet somewhere on the road to equality, the progress of affirmative action came to be measured on relative scales. Goals and quotas were filled using preferences for unqualified people.
(07/17/95 9:00am)
I entered the room a skeptic. I knew Dottie Lamm participates in United Nations conferences on the status of women. But I did not know she is a woman of intellect and passion with an important message that has been overlooked or misunderstood by a vast majority of Americans.