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...about using the foreign-aid budget to build a big fence around the country--but they back higher military spending. "They figure we ought to basically tell other countries what to do because we're the strongest, then come home," says a Republican congressional staff member only half in jest. European parliamentarians and ministers who go to Capitol Hill for long-scheduled meetings with groups of congressmen are finding that only one or two--sometimes none--show up. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has set up a foreign-policy breakfast series to educate his charges about the world, but attendance...
...recent portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, Norman Mailer quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "On Heroism," in an attempt to understand the mind of the killer. "[Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life. Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good," Emerson wrote. "Now to no other man can wisdom appear as it does...
...that her piece was partly in jest, as is mine. But the bottom line remains: the equipment and facilities in the MAC can make an athlete out of the puniest of us. Demanding the latest machines and sterilizing technology is like refusing to wear last year's clothes because they're out of style or have a spot on them. This obsession with the "newest" and "best" is obscene in its own right, but her complaining also mistakes the MAC's purpose. It is not a fashion show nor the plush, sterilized health spa she so ardently desires...
...covered in The Crimson on September 13, but due to the hectic nature of Registration Week, the story was buried on the tenth page and went almost unnoticed. Still, students who have seen the cage are outraged by it. One person that I interviewed even suggested, half in jest, that he might be inspired to dismantle the cage in the dead of night with a blowtorch...
With a proud grin Floyd then pulls out his own 38, Red (Tommy Hollis) shows off his, and Canewell (Ruben Santiago-Hudson) wips out his switchblade, each arguing half in jest about whose weapon is best. Their playful posturing merely conceals what is ready to explode from within...