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Complaining about the weather is practically a full-time job for college students in the Boston area. But beyond the necessary long-term love-affair with Gore-Tex, the snowstorms have their benefits. Boston and its environs are a veritable fantasyland of wintry treats. So make like a Christmas chocolate box with these sweet-as-candy winter escapades that will put a glow in your cheek and a spring in your (snow-shoed) step...
...abandoned slum infested with gang members. The gang members think they're hunting you. They are sadly mistaken. You are hunting them, with whatever weapons--a plastic bag, a sawed-off 12 gauge--you can lay your ruthless, muscular hands on. Meanwhile, the director gleefully captures the gore on film...
...Gore's solution, of course, is to start a TV news network. With deep-pocketed backers, Gore has looked into buying cable channel News World International. Despite initial reports, Gore's camp says he and his backers intend to make the channel not a liberal mouthpiece but a "hip" news channel for young viewers--CNN meets MTV. Maybe; maybe not. (Gore has long complained about the undue influence of conservatives on talk radio and Fox News, so you do the math...
What the Bush-TV and Gore-TV ideas have most in common is not politics. It is this American combination of idealism and arrogance: the conviction that if everyone had pure, unfiltered information--if, indeed, there were such a thing--the scales would fall from their eyes, and they would join the side of right...
...before the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush launched a final attack on Al Gore. "I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence," he said. This was, you may recall, a signature Bush theme. Nation building was for wussy foreign-policy sociologists; the military's job was to "fight and win" wars. How ironic that the good news from Iraq the Bush Administration has been touting is almost entirely due to the excellent nation-building efforts of the U.S. military...