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...suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue pooches on chopsticks, and they wanted a response ready. So, Phillips advised, "just tell them Chinese find it strange that Europeans eat horses...
...what closes at the end of one week; sitcoms must go on week after week. Acknowledging this, Yorkin and Lear are entertainers who brandish the weapons of satire but use them sparingly. Their Bunkers and Sanfords are sheep in wolves' clothing ? domesticated in every sense from a tougher breed of British precursors...
Changing the world has never been a job for the conventional or easily discouraged. But the problems of our time demand an especially crafty and determined breed of activist, because our enemies refuse to dress the part. Math illiteracy plagues black kids without wearing a hood or burning a cross. Urban sprawl doesn't need a gun to rob a community's quality of life. And hunger can hide beneath a designer T-shirt...
...them. Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilariously spooky novel-as-parable called "A Handful of Dust," in which an Englishman, his marriage destroyed, joins an archaeological expedition to Brazil; the expedition falls apart, and the Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family, presumed dead - lives on for years in the impenetrable Brazilian forest, held prisoner so that he might read Dickens aloud every afternoon to the brute with a taste...
...American Greetings afloat, the industry has some serious work to do. Let's face it: Right now, people are turning to other outlets for their sentimental needs because traditional greeting cards are in a sad state. Gone are the gentle witticisms of the past. In their place, a new breed of cards has emerged: Crass, vulgar and totally inappropriate for anyone not hoping to pledge a particularly odious fraternity...