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What's an editorialist to do? These are two of my favorite ideals, and usually, they come as sort of a package deal--I coo with delight each time The Alliance of Parents Against Cuss Words in Rock Music mounts yet another doomed campaign...
...sort of declaration of independence from the U.N. and Boutros-Ghali. The new U.S. troops will be under American, not U.N., command, and Oakley will operate as an American, not a U.N., representative. Republicans in particular have long suspected Boutros- Ghali of taking a dictatorial line; they delight in quoting him as once having said U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Somalia "when I say they can come out." Republican Senate leader Bob Dole exulted that Clinton's orders meant the U.S. will be doing "what we were going to do, not Boutros-Ghali...
...Chances are that you espied a lamppost, a bulletin board or a kiosk. Since we are in Cambridge, they were probably papered over with posters. Those posters, no doubt, were covered with mind-numbingly stupid slogans. Harvard is supposed to be full of intelligent, discerning human beings; people who delight in scorning the low-brow indulgences of consumer culture. How has it come, then, that we are daily bombarded with home-grown jingles that make meaningless TV ejaculations like "Coke Is It," seem thankfully creative by comparison...
...fact, I should expect to be crucified for even making these observations. Tolerance apparently only extends to accepted wisdom. In the pursuit of freedom for all, we are wandering haphazardly down the path of complete repression. Only in such a miserable intellectual vacuum can we take such supreme delight in the intensely stupid antics of two poorly-drawn, obnoxious cartoon characters...
...Dell and Compaq, U.S. companies sent shock waves through the Japanese PC establishment by trimming prices up to 30%. While Japanese domestic manufacturers, such as Fujitsu and NEC, have responded with deep discounts of their own, they have been unable to shake off the Americans, much to the delight of Japanese consumers...