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...uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum. No one is safe from Sorel: he skewers Arabs and Zionists, harpoons Cardinal Cooke and Billy Graham, lampoons the Jerry Lewis telethon: "Maybe some day science will find a cure for Multiple No-Talent." Sorel's style is best when it reveals the foibles of its subject graphically: Gloria Steinem as a knight in tarnished amour, Scoop Jackson as a sheriff with a beltful of missiles, Woody Allen as Satan. His critiques of the Watergaters lean too heavily...
...your House don't want to be there. But when Rulan and Theodore Pian resigned their position as co-Masters of South House so they could pursue their respective careers, the University had to find someone to fill this less-than-desirable position. The man chosen to try to cure So Ho's ills was Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services and sometime Master of Kirkland House...
...muckraker--not in the present pejorative sense of needlessly digging out past personal scandals of celebrities, but in the sense of following the fine old tradition of the crusading journalist seeking out corruption or abuse of power wherever it may occur and exposing that evil to the timeless cure of fresh air and sunlight. His book brings out a creeping fascism: in what he sees as a slow rise in scientists' and physicians' willingness to regard human beings simply as biological mechanisms in a larger social machine, and to value the efficiency of the overall machine above the dignity...
...affliction smites countless millions around the globe every four years, come what may. Duration of the attack: 25 days at its full-blown stage, preceded by weeks of increasingly restless intensity. The symptoms: curious declines in national productivity, chronic absenteeism, peripatesis, extraordinary outbursts of chauvinistic expression. The cure: absolutely none. The malady is World Cup fever, and as teams from 16 nations* descended on host country Argentina last week for this year's play-off for world soccer supremacy, North Americans were more or less on the sidelines: a large portion of humanity was preparing for its ultimate soccer...
While the Pomeranians can move away from the region, there is no quick cure for a dying ecosystem that took thousands of years to create. The Brazilian government has offered fiscal incentives for reforestation of the area, but profit-hungry companies respond by planting Australian eucalyptus and American pine, trees better suited for making a quick buck than for restoring an original habitat. Says Ruschi: "There are laws prohibiting the killing of rare species, but there are no laws preventing the destruction of the whole forest." Environmentalists are calling for conservation, but for many Brazilians, economic development remains...