Word: ideas
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Harvard must also avoid looking past Penn to an exciting showdown with Duke next Saturday. The Blue Devils (5-1) are ranked sixth in the country, and they should give the Crimson, ranked 19th, an idea of how far it has come and how much farther it has to go to contend for a national championship...
...originally had an interview set up with a local minister, but he called back and said that Minister Farrakhan told him it wouldn't be a good idea. I don't know if that was geared toward me or just the press in general," said Lawit...
Leyner's paranoid rhapsodies continue in "Great Prentenders," an essay on the dominance of a thespian conspiracy in modern society--the idea that your neighbors, for example, are not really neighbors, but actors hired by realestate salesmen to convey the image of an ideal neighborhood. Leyner calls this the "De Niro-ization' of culture...Migratory shifts back and forth from the real to the simulacrum [that] will calibrate the rest of history." "The Mary Poppins Kidnapping" pokes fun at the over-sensitive parents who worry that all forms of media, even the innocuous products of Disney, are dangerous influences...
President Clinton says that House Speaker Newt Gingrich should have stuck to his guns on a plan to give each poor child in the nation a laptop computer. "I don't think that's a bad idea at all," Clinton told a group of 50 college reporters in Washington today. Gingrich set the idea aside in the face of objections that the program would be too costly. Said the president: "I think that if we had enough resources to teach every poor child in this country how to interact with the whole world of information that's available...
...socialism," Gingrich and his minions urge Americans to reject their conceptions of the government's responsibility. Previously, only Third World countries have been forced to accept such repressive notions. Declassified Cold War documents state that a major goal of U.S. foreign policy has been preventing the spread of the idea that the government should promote social welfare...