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...discomfort, you say? Bah! Remember, honey--no pain, no gain. There is a reason why your Barbie doll could never stand up barefoot; her feet are molded for stiletto heels. And look who she reeled in: that handsome hunk Ken. Even in the seemingly innocent realm of Saturday morning cartoons, Smurfette, object of desire for hundreds of lusty blue Smurfs, possessed the cutest pair of white high heels...
...second response to the discomfort-potential of HCIA actions is that such actions essentially take place already. Is there any real difference between a BCC member sitting down to dinner with a student and a student reading a poster like Hillel's recent one: "Eating alone again at the Union? Come to Freshman Night at Hillel"? In fact, there is no difference at all between proselytizing actively and passively (provided that active recruitment bars harassment...
...party's drubbing in last November's midterms, what can Clinton offer that will convince voters he should be President for six more years instead of two? The President's nascent re-election team believes it has found at least one answer in the public's level of discomfort with the Republican agenda. No longer able to advance much of his own legislative program, Clinton is positioning himself as a bulwark against his opponents' excesses, an above-the-fray arbiter protecting the otherwise undefended-women, senior citizens, minorities, working families, the whole middle class-against Republican zealots...
While I don't doubt that somewhere in America a crowd of rowdy teenagers cheered at Mr. Blonde's torture (in much the same way that past generation cheered at the success of Hollywood's great train robbers) or that people may laugh (usually) out of (discomfort) at something horrible, Tarantino's movie is so effective precisely because it strikes at the core of our moral sense. Not only is the success of this film not evidence that we are losing our sense of morality, it is strong evidence to the contrary...
...senior Administration source tells TIME that Hillary Rodham Clinton will bow to public discomfort with her czar-like role in policy issues and play advocate instead. President Clinton and the first lady have talked at length about her role and how she is perceived: "They've concluded she is an enormous asset to him personally," says the source, but the American people "want her to be an advocate for causes she believes in, and not operationally in charge of things. They feel that having her running a piece of the action is hard for the public to understand." Instead...