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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forgive the easy Dan Quayle joke. (Was there ever a better week for easy Dan Quayle jokes?) Carson hinted at something important: there's a lot more on TV than Murphy Brown. If the Vice President is correct in suggesting that the behavior of prime-time characters can affect the behavior of real-life people, then the issue is not just Murphy Brown. It is the value system conveyed across the spectrum of what TV has to offer. And the fact is that, far from tearing down the family, prime-time TV these days is boosting family values more aggressively...
...more of Me -- with feminism, which seeks to make it as much a woman's as a man's world. Nowhere do men have more of an edge than in being able to marry women 60 years their junior and still reproduce themselves. Unfortunately, there is no legislation to correct this injustice...
...gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife, and I made a scratch no longer than about a quarter-inch, and that...
...Liems' insistence that Ignatiev follow their closed-door procedures is unrealistic, especially when students should be directly involved with the decision. That the tutor meetings should be seen as the only "correct" means by which Ignatiev could inform the community about his complaint and attempt to change police simply does not wash...
...feel it is a important to correct this mistaken coverage in order to acknowledge the efforts of the individuals who worked hard in this particular situation. It is also important to recognize that this is a typical media approach to race relations issues--one that reduces racial conflict to issues between Blacks and whites...