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...actions of homosexual males and heterosexual females, the graphic and anthropomorphic representation thereof would seem to be even more offensive. Yet there has been no outrage over Harvard-Yale T-shirts until now. Why? Perhaps because in the past students recognized that these shirts are made without malicious intent (the shirt in question was sold by a humor magazine). Or perhaps because political correctness continues to shift from being a tool to correct egregious obscenity into an end in itself...
...learning to be more tolerant of different groups, whether sexual, racial, or religious,” he wrote. “But I am also very supportive of people learning to become more light-hearted about issues that shouldn’t be taken too seriously, especially when the intent is probably not a harmful...
...Magic Seeds, Willie comes back to India, to join a movement of armed revolutionaries intent on ending the grip of feudal landlords on the countryside. But his real goal is not social revolution: time is running out for him to make a man of himself, and he figures he'll do it by fighting for a good cause. Almost as soon as he joins the guerrillas, he realizes he has made a mistake: he has fallen in among murderers and terrorists. In the chapters that follow, Naipaul sketches brilliant psychological portraits of the guerrillas?you understand that...
...town hall-style debate last Friday, Kerry was clearly intent on courtship. He used the word respect each time he answered a woman's question about values, and he presented himself as a drug-reimporting, budget-balancing, stem-cell-researching champion of middle-class families. Sometimes even blatant pandering works if it shows that you're listening...
...Bush campaign claimed vindication by focusing on Saddam's intent. The report showed how Saddam was "gaming" the U.N., Bush said, by using the oil-for-food program to undermine sanctions. Far from being containable, as Kerry suggested, the report concluded that "Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime," which would have allowed Saddam to break loose and rearm. But the report also noted that Saddam "had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam...