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Harkin the Hawk: veering close to unabashed protectionism, he demands that the Japanese reduce their trade surplus by 20% a year -- or else. The threat would be akin to a Fortress America ban on Japanese imports, a drastic remedy with scant appeal to voters who freely choose to drive Japanese cars...
...weekly whose parent company also owns the National Enquirer and Weekly World News, that may be a distinction akin to being the grande dame of the whorehouse. In this week's issue, the Star (circ. 3.2 million) purports to describe the bedroom romps of Kirstie Alley ("Kirstie Alley: I Lured Men by Promising 3-in-a-Bed with Mimi Rogers") and the psychological torments of Julie Andrews ("Julie Andrews: Sound of Music Drove Me to Shrink"). For many readers, tabloids are nothing more than the print equivalent of candy bars -- fun but insubstantial. But when it comes to his cover...
...cultural matters we can hardly claim to have a left and a right anymore. Instead we have something more akin to two puritan sects, one masquerading as conservative, the other posing as revolutionary but using academic complaint as a way of evading engagement in the real world. Sect A borrows the techniques of Republican attack politics to show that if Sect B has its way, the study of Milton and Titian will be replaced by indoctrination programs in the works of obscure Third World authors and West Coast Chicano subway muralists, and the pillars of learning will forthwith collapse. Meanwhile...
...Cosa Nostra as a whole, Gravano's decision is the latest blow in a decade's worth of prosecutions and internal backstabbings. While some experts foresee the Mob's impending collapse, the situation may be more akin to the wave of turbulence and consolidation facing the legitimate side of U.S. industry. Four of the five New York families that dominate the national network are in such disarray that "there is talk of mergers and acquisitions," says William Doran, who runs the FBI's criminal division in New York. The fireworks may produce unusual new alliances, but Doran declares that...
...reasoned scholarship, together with a dash of compassion and a hint of counselling, not to get at the Truth, or even to advance in dialogue toward a more comprehensive understanding, but rather as a weapon, a blunt instrument, with which to beat a discussion into submission. The piece is akin to an intellectual mugging, and all the more disturbing as the dirty deed is done in the name of Western civilization and in behalf, in part, of the Christian Church...