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...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the laboriously crafted 123-nation agreement designed to lower tariff barriers. In his threatening letter demanding a delay of the vote, Senator Helms, who can make "free trade" sound like some weird practice he once saw in a Mapplethorpe photo, was trying to exploit the fact that Congress has agreed to consider GATT under "fast track" rules that allow only a yes or no vote, with no amendments. Because that rule expires in January, the next Congress, under G.O.P. control, would be free to decorate GATT with subclauses sure to kill it because each...
...recorded those lives with an empathy that shines through the grim pictures and has led him to keep in touch with several of the teens. "It was important to me that these photographs not exploit the subjects but rather give voice to them," says Liss, who has been a Big Brother volunteer for the past seven years. To keep the shots authentic, he carefully avoided arty angles and used available light. "I believe strongly in the power of straightforward documentary photography," he says...
...eyed intruder? And in a society that began to demonize African Americans almost as long ago as it first enslaved them, blacks have endured being cast as menacing shadows at the edge of bad dreams. What has changed is that political rhetoric and pop culture are increasingly willing to exploit these shadows. When George Bush's 1988 campaign needed a name and a face for the bogeyman, it came up with Willie Horton. Some black rappers have turned the stereotype to their own profit, striking "gangsta" poses -- in black knit caps. Susan Smith didn't have to use much imagination...
...another perversion of the tyranny of the American majority, those rare unified blips on the heart-monitors of public opinion are invariably amplified and exploited by congressional campaigners. Showing no discrimination for which of those mass sentiments they exploit, many candidates simply tout the Gallup line, even if it means promoting hate for and undermining the very institution they seek to build. Polls showing that 70 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with Congress are like great waves of what the New York Times calls "sheer undifferentiated anger" on which candidates can coast to victory...
...Crimson's recent coverage of the Internet and other technology issues seems to demonstrate a desire to exploit and sensationalize rather than to report and analyze...