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...those of us whose careers depend upon the successful reading of entrails, the recent vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a career-challenging, once-in-a-lifetime, baptism-by-fire, (place your cliche here) experience. The escalating demagoguery and the reduction of a substantive issue to excruciating sound bites and appalling rhymes (NAFTA: we hafta, or we'll be sorry thereafta) during the weeks immediately preceding the vote were perhaps the strongest argument for keeping the administrative proceedings which accompany such international trade negotiations opaque...
...designs are numerous and varied--there's something for everyone. Predictably, Yale smut surfaces in designs which depend on "sexual innuendos," explains Winkler. "Huck Farvard," reads one, while another offers the "Top 10 Reasons to go to Yale" (Reason number one: Yale always ends up on "top.") Others shirts are take-offs of popular TV characters like Beavis and Butthead and "Yalie" Kramer of "Seinfeld," who stomps a Crimson helmet...
...true that our budget deficit deserves attention. But Tsongas, Warren Rudman and their Concord Coalition use rhetoric that suggests that it is wrong by its very nature. In fact, borrowing money in order to spend it is morally neutral. Our judgment of such borrowing should depend on what it is used for; there can be good and bad deficits. But deficit spending in and of itself can be useful and should not be shamed out of the political debate...
...sport in which wins and losses depend as much on trigonometry and physics as brute strength and coordination, Spracklin, according to Butt, refined Butt's understanding of a rowing technique that would make Harvard's season extraordinary...
...role is what makes the movie asuccess. Cheung, despite being a Hong Kong popstar accustomed to playing leading man roles, isperfectly cast. His Dieyi is in some ways the mostfeminine character of the movie, a tragic figurefaithful to the man be loves. The son of aprostitute, Dieyi comes to depend upon Xiaolou forguidance and purpose. The young Dieyi is already asexually ambiguous figure, and this ambiguity isincreased by being forced to sing lines like "I amby nature a girl, not a boy," and participate in aprocess designed to allow him to play female rolesconvincingly. He initially refuses, apparentlyfrightened...