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Patrick S. Chung is a columnist for The Crimson...
...these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. "Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world," says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years." There are "breeds" in the mutt world, just as there are among purebreds...
...identify Les Aspin in 1974 as someone who might go far. Back then he was simply a two-term Congressman with an interest in military affairs, yet he rose all the way to Secretary of Defense. How well did that turn out? Clinton, Rather, Biden, Senator Sam Nunn, columnist George Will, California Governor and possible Republican presidential nominee Pete Wilson, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Citibank CEO John Reed -- all were on the lists of potential leaders, and all could be said to have realized their potential. Even so, the leadership vacuum remains. We have the leaders we wanted. Now what...
Rascoff makes a lot of good points in his column, but he wrongfully points fingers at the film-makers. Whether or not they get involved with their subjects should not be a point of moral debate. Perhaps it may be a controversy within the film industry, but a columnist shouldn't judge three professionals for the moral dilemmas they faced, that include ones Rascoff has no idea about...
...Columnist, New York Times...