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...justness of a nation ought never be determined by the liberties it extends to the vast majority of its citizens, but rather by the rights it is willing to guarantee to its most marginalized minority groups. Judged on these grounds, America is far from the bastion of fairness and equal rights it hypocritically declares itself to be. Two hundred twenty-four years and 42 presidents after our nation first proclaimed its independence from British tyranny and oppression, politicians are still fervently proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." And, yet, they...
...this for Lee: he is an equal-opportunity annoyer. He condemns whites for manufacturing the old image of the shiftless, larcenous Negro and for still seeing blacks through that warped prism. He also chastises blacks for inhabiting restrictive new and polar-opposite categories: the gangsta and the Buppie. Satire typically proceeds from two impulses: rage at the powerful and contempt for the masses. Lee has both...
...across the aisle, where one would anticipate an equal and opposite reaction of elation, the FDA's decision has left many pro-choice advocates strangely unsatisfied. For although RU-486 has been completely cleared for public consumption, that clearance is tampered with a long list of restrictions that pro-choice supporters claim reduce its effectiveness for those who would wish to use it. These advocates assert that the stipulations that the FDA has placed upon the pill will serve to counter the majority of the pill's positive effects...
...that choice implies a serious lack of maturity and responsibility: Tonight, we're offered two choices in equal parts: A handful of cavity-causing marshmallows from Fox and NBC or a fistful of vitamin-rich carrot sticks from CBS and ABC. Everyone knows the carrots are better for us, but since the marshmallows happen to be there...
Several sports in Sydney have a Patrick Rafter or Anna Kournikova type in the draw--a real looker--but none has anybody to equal badminton's Camilla Martin of Denmark, who was the attraction on the pressroom TV. To say she is smashing is not just to describe her game. But her game, as it happens, is indeed smashing. At 5 ft. 9 in., she is usually taller than her foe, who invariably is a woman from China, Indonesia or South Korea--countries that dominated the sport until the Danes came along...