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...Olympians count themselves winners when surveys show that consumers cannot tell which company has the official imprimatur. The real Games, however, could end up the loser if the corporate games get so rough that companies decide to quit paying for exclusive sponsorships. The money collected from selling rights goes for training players and staging trial competitions...
...commercial enterprise need agree with every word that appears under its corporate imprimatur. If Time Warner now intends to be "a global force for encouraging the confrontation of ideas," that's swell. But a policy of allowing diverse viewpoints is not a moral free pass. Pro and con on national health care is one thing; pro and con on killing policemen is another...
...government. A target for President Reagan on the theory that merit ought to be defined by the populist mechanism of the box office, it spent the past decade spiraling downward from dreams of expansion to danger of demise. Artists and administrators who benefit from the NEA's money and imprimatur concede they have blown the political debate. They allowed the right wing to misrepresent culture as a hotbed of the unpatriotic, the irreligious, the sexually permissive and perverse. "We have let the extremes dictate the battlefield," says Milton Rhodes, president of the American Council for the Arts...
...certainly has freedom of speech and theright to speak, but the idea that a responsiblestudent group at Harvard would invite thisextortionist thug and give him the imprimatur of aHarvard group is utterlyirresponsible," he added. "It's clearly motivatedby a desire to stick it to the Jews...
Nonetheless, the traditional structure of public education, where students are assigned to schools by fiat, is under a sustained assault. The Bush plan perhaps should be regarded as a clever White House effort to put its imprimatur on a popular rebellion that was already reshaping educational policy from the grass roots up. Local school bureaucracies are already under siege from a variety of forces -- innovative Governors, activist courts, maverick educators and aroused parents...