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...bumper sticker, though the bombast of a lot of critics allowed him to cast the terms as a choice between foolish isolation and practical engagement. No one who knows foreign policy thinks the U.S. should turn China into a pariah state, and only a handful called for Clinton to cancel his trip...
...commercials, Byers' families are conventional and ones that we can relate to. His pediatrician mothers don't save the lives of 30 cholera-stricken infants a day, nor do his scientist fathers discover life-saving cures for cancer. They are normal parents who read to their kids when ill, cancel vacation plans without too much ado, have a verbal fight or two without getting distraught over it. Byers' characters are not larger than life, despite their whimy--they're just about life size...
...HERE, NOT NOW Free expression has taken some hard knocks lately. Protests caused a Manhattan theater to temporarily cancel a production of Terrence McNally's new play, which reportedly features a depiction of a gay Christ figure. In Japan, school officials cut a John Updike short story about three bathing suit-clad girls from a textbook, saying it would disrupt classes. In South Carolina and Tennessee, high schools canceled Indigo Girls, top, concerts because of offensive lyrics. And in Alabama, a minister banned the singing of Stevie Nicks' Landslide at a baccalaureate service, saying she is a witch and Satan...
However, midway through the process, Sugarman says he realized his heart wasn't in it He found himself left with several job interviews for positions he did not want, but it was too late to cancel. He decided he would have some fun with his interviewers by convincing them that he was mentally unstable...
...Democratic Society. Many more of us joined the protests around the country. We marched against the Vietnam War in Boston, New York and Washington. In the spring of 1970, our protests against the bombing of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University forced the University to cancel exams for the first time in its history. Harvard was changing as well. My first year at Harvard, my dorm, Eliot House, was the first dormitory to go co-ed, and men and women students shared bathrooms. It was a far cry from two years earlier when there were parietals...