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...Tower of Babel" is what Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan calls the din surrounding U.S. food products. But if Americans are having trouble deciphering the language in food labels and advertising, just who or what is to blame? The food industry likes to point the finger at the Federal Government's regulatory swamp, while the government puts the onus on overzealous marketers. But in truth there is enough culpability for all. For years now, foodmakers and government regulators have been tangled up together in a web of sloppy practices and, above all, cozy politics. "Everything in nutrition...
...became part of a partisan brawl as Republicans and Democrats squared off over the latest update of civil rights legislation. Last week House Democrats agreed to an explicit ban on race norming as part of an effort to salvage their version of the civil rights bill. But the congressional din threatens to drown out an important debate over the value of testing and the amount of racial redress white America will tolerate...
When we leave, new writers, protesters, speakers, politicians, will take our places and we will, eventually, be forgotten. The din of student debate falls softly on the ears of University Hall administrators and the brevity of our careers means that each of us alone cannot really hope to effect radical change. Year to year, the University will stay about the same and the students will continue to come and go, littering Harvard's halls with hundreds of written pages, but only faint memories of the messages they contained...
Stay tuned for reviews of the Din and Tonics, Pitches and many other Harvard-Radcliffe a cappela groups in upcoming Arts pages...
...that the guns have fallen silent, the pounding of jackhammers will soon replace the din of war. At $200 billion or more over the next 10 years, the price of rebuilding ravaged Kuwait seems certain to dwarf the $50 billion or so that it took to liberate the oil-rich country. With that much money at stake, companies around the world began battles of their own long before the shooting war ended, fighting over contracts for everything from hospitals to refineries in one of history's largest reconstruction jobs. "This provides an almost unlimited backlog of good, profitable work," says...