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Jendi B. Reiter is a regular columnist for The Crimson...
...beyond Arkansas now. He's more Yale and Oxford than Arkansas." That was the snap judgment, later modified, of columnist John Brummett, the best of the journalistic Clinton watchers in Little Rock. When several people told me that Bill Clinton brought them into the state and took them on tours of its beauties, Brummett said, "I wonder what they could be. Maybe he should take me on one of those tours." When Hillary Rodham first came to Arkansas, it took Clinton nine hours to drive the one-hour's distance from Little Rock's airport to his mother's home...
Even if you don't follow baseball closely, you have probably heard Chicago Cub fans (columnist George Will is a particularly lachrymose example) wailing about how their beloved North Side team has not been in the World Series since -- horrors! -- 1945 or actually won one since -- worse horrors! -- 1908. As if to take pity on the star-crossed Cubs, Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent arranged for the club to play an easier schedule starting in 1993, a move prompted by the fact that the National League will grow from 12 to 14 teams next year. Sure, long-overdue geographic reform played...
...tractors. On May 28, a third of the country's workers joined in a general strike, bringing to 50 million the number of working hours lost to work stoppages, far more than in any other West European nation this year. "This was to be the magic year," says political columnist Jose Luis Gutierrez. "Instead the country is in turmoil: you can smell the aggressiveness...
Consider the gulf war, by now totally misunderstood. New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb writes, "If the Persian Gulf war promised a new era of collective responsibility, Yugoslavia heralds its early demise." But the gulf war promised no new era of collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...