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...political acumen or intellectual fortitude, the idea that tumbled out of her loud head last week is too important not to be taken seriously. As the Boston Globe sympathetically editorialized, "it would be hard to argue with Elders that shootings in the nation's cities and suburbs would diminish if cocaine were legalized." We all know that most of the violence results from the prohibition on drugs, which generates a lucrative illegal business. Drug dealers kill each other and innocent victims in the relentless pursuit of increased market share...
...encourage the people around here all the time, when we're under all this pressure, that we should be on a personal basis with our own harshest critics, but that we should never permit the criticism of others to diminish our self-image. I think one of the things we all have to guard against here in this town is that it is so fixated on politics and demands such long hours of most people that you forget what a balanced life is like. It makes people more vulnerable...
...most colorful institutions to change its charter, the staff assumes a posture that has received little support from the campus at large. People have seemed to enjoy the annual Hasty Pudding show for years--both men and women alike--and we think that including women in the cast would diminish its unique draw...
...suggesting anything so radical as having women play female parts--we like seeing men in tights and high heels as much as anyone. Adding women to the cast in male parts would enhance, not diminish, the special transvestite ambience of the Pudding. It would also give female actors the chance to perform in the biggest budget theatrical extravaganza on campus. Many famous personalities got their start in the Pudding (just ask Governor Weld)--women deserve an equal opportunity to such exposure...
...bound to crumble, and the number of political parties in the country will probably shrink from the current nine to two or three. Though corruption will surely not disappear, the current need for politicians to raise huge sums of under-the-table cash for re-election will diminish. Perhaps most important, the new system will help shift power from rural voters and rice-farming interests to city dwellers, who are the vast, underrepresented majority...