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...this underlying optimism that accounts for the quiet debate now consuming Bush's strategists: What kind of campaign should the President wage? There are two choices. Either Bush can ape Reagan and seek a first-ever 50- state landslide or he can run a serious coattail campaign designed to wrest effective control of Congress from the Democrats by devoting considerable time and money to helping specific congressional candidates. Past G.O.P. candidates have hoped for a trickle-down effect -- a huge presidential victory that pulls in enough Republican legislators, who then join with conservative Democrats to fashion a working majority...
Furthermore, the oppressive effects of Western thought on nonwhites is not as clear-cut as most multiculturalists assume. Certainly, many past immigrants were encouraged to ape their "betters," as the parlance then called them -- to model their speech and demeanor on the dominant examples of white Anglo- Saxon Protestants, some of whom, in turn, were trying to imitate the British aristocracy. But this imperative belongs to the transient domains of fashion and snobbery, and in any case sycophancy is not unique to America or to Western societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against...
...Quinn, 55, was picked the best of the bunch. But wait a minute. The next day judges William Styron and Peter Matthiessen claimed that their panel did not want the full award to go to Ishmael -- described as "a series of philosophical conversations between a man and a great ape" -- and charged the Turner organization with misrepresenting their position in its publicity releases. Not so, said Ray Bradbury, another juror, who defended Ishmael and ragged his colleagues: "I think Styron and Matthiessen are literary snobs...
...Life, a quarterly published by Fox TV's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is almost sweet by comparison. The inaugural issue features an article by syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry, the baby-boomer laureate, and at least a dozen other stories ape his smirky, adolescent style. The magazine exudes this attitude most succinctly in a column by Mike Kelly, who deplores the emergence of a less macho, more candid style of masculinity: "I don't know any New Men. I don't know any women who know any New Men. I don't even know any women who want to know...
...monkey business started back in 1973 when Charles River Laboratories set up a breeding colony of rhesus monkeys on an island in the Florida Keys. Since then the primates have gone ape, swelling in numbers to more than 4,000, fouling the water and destroying endangered mangrove trees on state-owned land. Despite protests from environmentalists and nearby property owners, Bausch & Lomb Inc., which bought the colony in a package deal in 1984, refused to relocate it. Then in May the state department of natural resources quietly agreed to a settlement in which Bausch & Lomb would be allowed to phase...