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...bombings were in fact the work of the government, an official % spokesman vaguely promised an "investigation." The blockade has also made it difficult for the U.N.-sponsored Operation Lifeline Sudan to supply farmers with seeds and tools for planting, just when plentiful rains hold the promise of a bumper harvest...
...surprise, everyone said yes. I realized that Ehrenreich does not have sole intellectual possession over the idea that poverty, homelessness and racism are bad. This bumper-sticker mentality does a disservice to everyone who has ever committed a minute to help another human being. The rest of Harvard has a conscience...
About the "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE" bumper stickers which Professor Blumenthal would stick on the BMW s of our generation (and given our single-mindedness, we will, I read, all have them). To begin with, Professor Blumenthal assumes that the decision "not to crowd the other one" is necessarily selfish. On the one hand, the decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation...
...teach, to my enduring amazement, write rarely if ever about love, and even more rarely about sex. I am, for that matter, more likely to find in my collected stacks a poem about their difficulties with their Macintosh than with their girl- or boyfriend! Where my generation's favorite bumper sticker may have been "MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR," theirs, I am virtually convinced, will in no time be, "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE...
...certainly discovered the benefits of modern marketing, packaging a deluxe picture disk CD edition of Built to Last with a set of Grateful Dead playing cards and providing order forms in the standard editions of the album so that fans can purchase Grateful Dead coffee mugs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers by mail...