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...diplomacy with their Kremlin counterparts, particularly on arms control. These were the hard and soft dimensions of the same global mission. Maintaining the right balance between the two required a degree of rational public discourse that is almost ) always missing in U.S. election campaigns, which tend to be nasty, brutish and long. When the defining issue in the national debate was a matter of war and peace, life and death, the topic of foreign policy was bound to be highly divisive...
...endangered species in Hollywood. African Americans have already made it quite clear that they are fed up with appearing in movies as muggers, pimps and other disreputable characters. Arab Americans say they are sick of being typecast as terrorists. And Native Americans have had it with being portrayed as brutish scalp-craving savages. Now gay activists are taking to the streets to decry the growing number of movies that, they say, are stereotyping them as psychopathic killers...
...course the classism of the Gap is not as nasty or brutish as the market can be. But it is classist and deindividualizing and boring and democratic and American. We get the culture we deserve...
...other speakers also praised the establishment of the center, which many saw as more than a decade overdue. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles said, "The life of a graduate student is brutish, nasty and long." He said he hoped the center would make this life "easier"--but not easy enough to encourage "tenured graduate students" to stay for too many years...
Those in the dock were not the only ones squirming through the kangaroo sessions. The Bush Administration was chafing too, embarrassed by the brutish behavior of a regime that it had risked so much to restore to power. Embracing a government as undemocratic as Kuwait's was awkward from the outset, but expectations were high that the liberated country would march briskly toward liberalization. Instead, the ruling band of brothers and cousins that runs the country seems to have settled comfortably into its old habits...