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...November 19 opinion piece ["Bring Back the Draft,"] John L. Larew proposes the draft as the best solution to an effective discrimination against the "poor and ignorant" who volunteer for the army and die while Harvard men think of clever ways to evade...
...Bush the ideal President to articulate such an ambiguous policy. It's hard to tell when he's being clever and when he's plain inarticulate. Bush, says one White House aide, "figures people should leave him alone to do what he decides is best. His attitude is 'This is very complicated. You just wouldn't understand.' " An Administration official adds that whether the White House on any given day stresses its hopes for peace or its willingness to fight sometimes "has been determined by the President's mood or the questions he gets...
...interest of ideological pluralism and bright colors, I would like to humbly present a new, unofficial campus group. This group is named ENOUGH and its symbol is a chartreuse irregular quadrangle. ENOUGH is not politically correct or proper, or even particularly aware. In fact, it isn't even a clever acronym. ENOUGH is ENOUGH...
...daughter is puzzled. Why, she wants to know, did Georgie Porgie kiss the girls and make them cry? "Because he's mean," I say, with a sinking feeling, for how can this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young George is a clever rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy in her gender...
...clever by half. For the nearly 20 years that Darman has been shaping policy in Washington, that has been his reputation. A manipulator who could not be trusted. A hypocrite who, even as he preached against the shortsighted "now-nowism" that has afflicted American society, used ludicrously optimistic economic forecasts to delay the day of reckoning with the looming budgetary disaster. Former Senator Howard Baker even coined a word to describe his elliptical gambits: Darmanesque...