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...frustrating that in the first two seasons TNG writers came and went like Tribbles as Roddenberry assiduously rewrote nearly every script to conform to his notion of futuristic collegiality and his distaste for warfare. He had written for such popular shows as Dragnet and Have Gun Will Travel, and candidly envisioned the original Star Trek series as a "Wagon Train to the stars." In his quintessentially '60s view, the final frontier may have been full of hostile Klingons and dangerous Romulans, but they were generally susceptible to a pep talk -- only occasionally augmented by a punch in the nose -- from...
While he accuses lesbigay support groups of "pressuring the ambivalent to label themselves gay of lesbian." Lat ignores the infinitely more intense pressures on all students to conform to heterosexual norms of behaviour. Lat's suggestion that very few lesbian, gay or bisexual students remain in the closet at Harvard is contradicted by the numerous testimonies of those who find it impossible to come out until after they have graduated. Lat argues that one should be proud only of what one has personally accomplished. According to this restrictive view, I may be Chinese, but because I had no hand...
...Japan after spending 29 years at Toyota, has launched Detroit's first TV campaign in Japan, in which local Ford owners proudly tell the camera, "This is my first Ford." Most of the ads show right-hand-drive models such as the Probe and the European-made Mondeo, which conform to Japan's drive-on-the-left standard. Until last year, Detroit did not offer a single U.S.-made right-hand-drive car in Japan...
...beliefs is that the New Young are so different from their elders that a profound change will occur in Japan in the coming years," Wardell says. "One of my professors argued with me that the New Young will conform in some degree and that the changes I foresee will not occur...
...Political analysts told TIME Mexico reporter Elizabeth Love the death of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu might have less to do with Massieu's No. 2 role in the PRI than his tenure as governor of the province where the young suspect lives. Said one speculator: "Two assassinations do not conform a social tendency, but evidently Colosio's killing seemed to break a kind of spell." Massieu's death is a setback for Mexican political change, since he was considered one of the lead reformers within...