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Festivities will include a lip-sync contest followed by a beauty contest...
...first act, the characters are members of a supposedly repressed 1880s British family in colonial Africa. The Big Joke, I suppose, is the shameless promiscuity behind the family's stiff-upper-lip facade. So what? Imperialist Victorians aren't exactly a daring target for satire. They are no harder to make fun of than, say, 1980s yuppies...
...hard to believe that defending the University's unethical decisions is enough to foster ethics in students. Yet Bok's report gives nothing but lip service to the dilemma of educating ethics, and concludes only that students can learn from the vague power of example. "Universities will never do much to encourage a genuine concern for the ethical issues...unless presidents and deans take the lead." It might strike some readers of the President's Report that the wrong person is addressing the wrong people about the need for ethical education...
Loraine: On your lip. Well, it didn't break the skin. I'm sorry you got hurt...
...Vice President talks about returning moral values to the classroom, but only recently has he advocated specific, contentious proposals like restoring prayer in school. "I wouldn't be surprised if Bush treated social issues exactly as Reagan learned to do," says a Bush aide. "Reagan paid them plenty of lip service but didn't do too much to actually promote them...