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...public similarly has always recognized that in a democracy, where candidates for elective office have to sell themselves like consumer goods, politicians have little practical choice but to depict themselves as heaven's gift to the voter. Still, for most people, self-containment has long been thought a virtue...
Some time during the past 159 years, the official seal of Missouri turned unofficial. According to a state law passed in 1822, the seal is supposed to depict two Missouri grizzlies on their hind legs, each gazing out at the citizenry. The current version includes the mandated bears, but their bearing may be illegal: they stare straight at each other. Says State Representative Francis ("Bud") Barnes: "Somewhere along the line somebody started fooling around with those damn bears. They are now squaring off-and should not be." Which means that the seal does not conform with its statutory definition. Which...
...singers and dancers to wail over the alienation of their social life by oppressive education appeal to the audience as reminders of the elite status that three years at the Law School provide to those who choose to undergo whatever social barbarism it imposes. The show's authors depict the painstaking process of interviewing with corporate law firms, an experience familiar to most third-year students and anticipated with relish by a great number in their first. The several condescending references to the Yale law school--one would have been enough--show the performers' academic commitments. They tell us that...
Theirs is a disregard of the damage they do every time they refuse to change their subtly discriminatory teaching modes, which include the use of case studies that unfailingly depict welfare recipients as women or Blacks and government administrators as white males...
...decision looked like a concession, some observers were not so sure. It could have been an attempt to play on the growing disunity within Solidarity, at a time when the Communist Party leadership seems to be closing ranks. Some Solidarity leaders feared the government might also try to depict the union as unpatriotic for calling for paid Saturday holidays at a time when the country was $23 billion in debt and would require loans and aid from abroad totaling $11 billion more merely to get through...