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Even people who may not agree with you will treat you with respect. Therefore, there is really no good excuse to merely bemoan bias at The Crimson. If you don't like what you are reading, join the paper and shake things up--don't just complain...
...While Senate majority leader Robert Dole and Speaker of the House Gingrich bemoan the state of American culture, they oppose government mandates on children's programming and demand that pbs stop relying on federal appropriations. "It's nauseating," says Charren, "that the same guy [Dole] who is attacking what's terrible in entertainment is working very hard to keep the alternatives from getting on the TV screen...
Reopening the death penalty debate would have particular resonance in the context of the current Republican agenda in Congress. Newt Gingrich and his colleagues, mounting an all-out attack on big government, bemoan the ineffectiveness and incompetence of government bureaucracy. At the same time--with no argument from Clinton--they strive to put ever-more-powerful weapons in the hands of the criminal justice apparatus; the GOP crime bill passed by the House would speed up the execution process and give police broader search powers. Such selective surgery on governmental powers shows that the Republican crusade isn't mostly about...
Ostensibly, the religious right is concerned with "family values." They deplore the ubiquitous sex and violence in the music, movies and TV shows that Hollywood churns out. They bemoan America's lack of respect for the conventional, nuclear family, and the prevalence of teenage sex and pregnancies, abortions, and contraception...
...retreat of Rudenstine has all the trappings of a literary tragedy. The noble leader, beset by troubles on all sides, takes his charge too close to heart and (nearly, in this case) hastens his own demise. What better way could Dartboard bemoan this doleful turn of events than to call on its dearly departed bard to contribute a soul-stirring bit of poesy...