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Choi is right to liken the current University scene to a bazaar, with precious gems and useless junk laid out together indiscriminately. But what he and other traditionalists must recognize is that though relativism (which he somehow mistakenly confuses with "democracy"), is certainly not a good in itself, it is necessary for questioning the roots of our western culture--a process that is happening and will continue to happen, whether we like it or not. The product of this assimilation may be far superior to both the bazaar and the good, but provincial, culture that came before...
While hundreds of students headed up towards the Divinity School or Vanserg Building, three laid-off carpenters, wearing signs criticizing the project's general manager, C.E. Floyd...
...controlled the message masked a sharper debate over what Dole's message should be. Sipple & Co. wanted a clean shot: tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Reed argued that Sipple should sell a broader vision, the whole picnic of budget balancing and tax cuts and spending proposals that Dole laid out before the convention. Dole himself wanted to do the hard thing, offer not just the tax cuts but the specific plans to pay for them. When the ad finally aired, tax cuts were third on the list after spending cuts and a balanced budget, and Sipple got blamed...
...three sides have bulldozed their own voters to toe the line and other voters to stay away. Kujundzic and other Bosnian Serb leaders remain determined to gain independence for the territory they seized at the beginning of the war. The two most important preconditions for free and fair elections laid out in the peace agreement--freedom of movement and the return of refugees--have not been met. Almost no Muslims or Croats live in the Republika Srpska, and discrimination against Serbs is widespread in the federation put together by Muslims and Croats, who themselves live in ethnic enclaves...
...fact, the Netscape-Microsoft battle may be our first good look at information-age corporate warfare. Where industrial-age triumph was once measured in steamships built or in miles of rail track laid, victory today means little more than the right to come back and fight again tomorrow...