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...years as TV's top-rated series. During its peak season (1986-87), it was watched in 34.9% of all TV homes in the country. (This season's No. 1 show, 60 Minutes, could manage only 21.9%.) It sparked a revival of the domestic sitcom, a genre that had fallen into disrepair. (Fittingly, several other long-running comedies of the same generation -- The Golden Girls, Who's the Boss?, Growing Pains and Night Court -- are also saying goodbye this spring.) It initiated a healthy new attitude toward race on TV by building a show around an upper-middle-class family...
...first half of the staff editorial is "an insult...to feminists." Yes, the parody was offensive--its authors have admitted that and have apologized. But it was offensive because it mocked the death of a fallen members of our community, not because it mocked feminism...
Some say he shares the task of building racial harmony with Assistant Dean of Minority Affairs Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, but their interdepartmental bickering has hindered efforts to unify the campus. In the recent controversy, the task of mending campus tensions has fallen to Rudenstine--not to a single designated race relations administrator...
...explain. In the best of all possible worlds, we would all both profess virtue and practice it. But in a fallen world, we will have our vices. And it must be said that the modern vices of overindulgence (dissipation and profligacy) compare favorably with those of a century ago, which carried more than a tinge of cruelty. We no longer, for example, countenance cockfighting, child labor or the hanging of petty thieves...
...would be more seemly, to be sure, for the fallen voter to be a little less ardent in ripping apart candidates for their common human frailties. Nonetheless, better to project aspirations for high conduct on our betters than to have no aspirations to project...