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...country can do for you. Do it yourself,'' we said, happily perverting J.F.K.'s Inaugural exhortation. Our ethic of self-reliance came partly from science fiction. We all read Robert Heinlein's epic Stranger in a Strange Land as well as his libertarian screed-novel, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Hippies and nerds alike reveled in Heinlein's contempt for centralized authority. To this day, computer scientists and technicians are almost universally science-fiction fans. And ever since the 1950s, for reasons that are unclear to me, science fiction has been almost universally libertarian in outlook...
There were no racial remarks or innuendoes in the conversation between Rakobane and McCombe, according to letters submitted to the University by both men. But Rakobane, a Black South African, felt that McCombe singled him out for harsh words because of his race...
...Facing harsh odds for re-election, Clinton cannot afford to offend Florida voters by opposing the measure. Indeed, the Administration showed its toughness last week when the State Department forbade Cuba's U.N. ambassador to attend a national prayer breakfast in Washington. But these diplomats know that Helms' bill will buy the U.S. considerable trouble with good friends that are among Cuba's leading foreign investors...
...have always had a romantic vision of Cape Cod. Two summers ago I went there for the first time with a friend. I tasted the clams overboiled in sandy water, saw the rickety ghettos along Route 6 and came upon miles of coarse, deserted dunes with harsh twilight sandstorms. It was not my idealization of the Cape. It should have been a place of carefree beauty, of deck shoes and seagulls, of dinghies and pale yellow beach houses...
Cuban films are so rare these days that the appearance of one is laudable. The harsh economic situation in Cuba ensures that people are more preoccupied with getting enough to eat than with producing films. That any films are made at all is a testament to their creators' tenacity and determination...