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...more than 18 months the campaign has raged amid a blizzard of contending hype, hoopla and hard sell. Tons of campaign literature have been mailed, endless hours of television commercials broadcast, hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign funds spent. Accusations of lying, ballot stealing and electoral tampering have abounded. But already last week, well before the Sept. 1 deadline when the vast majority of some 95 million eligible telephone subscribers are to choose a supplier of long-distance telephone services, the outcome of the Great Long-Distance Telephone Election was already clear. The most elaborate competitive exercise...
...current anti-drug hoopla began last March, when a presidential commission looking into organized crime issued a report on governmental drug-enforcement policy. In the report, commission members called for widespread mandatory drug-testing for all government employees. Preserver and Defender of Our Liberties Edwin Meese immediately defended the constitutionality of the proposal. But civil liberties groups, members of Congress and employees unions attacked the idea just as quickly, and the Administration did not follow up with any specific proposals...
...Statue quietly celebrated it's 50th anniversary. No fireworks, no high gloss hoopla. There wasn't much to celebrate really, 1936 not being a banner year for world liberty. The birthday was tactfully forgotten...
Despite all the hoopla, says Tommy Walker, "the statue is still the star of the show." But like a demure singer in a long gown who is surrounded by chorus girls in sequined miniskirts, the statue may seem slightly lost amid the fanfaronade. Whether Liberty Weekend turns out to be a genuinely inspiring occasion or the most overdone pseudo-event in history may depend on the beholder. Anyone who is disappointed, however, can look forward to the fall: plans are under way for a more modest rededication ceremony on Oct. 28 to celebrate the statue's real 100th birthday...
...these criticisms are undoubtedly legitimate, but we Cantabrigians should not be too smug about the lack of intellectual rigor at the "hot" university du jour. That is because, for all the hoopla that accompanies the entrance of the Harvard Class of '86 into the company of educated men and women, many of us will graduate today knowing that our Harvard education is in large part a big inside joke...