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...attending a getting-to-know-you session called by my resident adviser -- a lanky upperclassman named Dan -- to introduce myself and make an attention- grabbing statement. I think I have a winner: I am 39 years old and I am going through freshman orientation on assignment for TIME. I needn't have wasted my breath. One look at my adult face and khaki shorts -- so dull compared with the colorful ersatz boxers in vogue among the young -- and they know I am not one of them...
This view ignores historical reality. With courageous political leadership, the armed services needn't lag behind the rest of society in acceptance of gays and lesbians. When it comes to carrying out social reforms, the military truly can be "a great place to start...
...will," says Clive Barker, the English horror writer whose books have never been banned but whose films must be trimmed to get an R rating. "Therefore, television must be scrutinized more vigorously than pop music, pop music more than pop movies, pop movies more than art-house movies. Books needn't be watched at all. If people are reading, after all, they must be bright and won't be affected by all this stuff...
...paying rent to Japanese landlords? It's hard to look at recent economic history -- or at a self-focusing Sony combination video camera/VCR no bigger than a grapefruit -- without wondering just that. (JAPAN NOW AHEAD IN NUCLEAR POWER, TOO, read last Tuesday's New York Times.) But one needn't look to genetic superiority to account for Japan's remarkable and mostly well-deserved success...
...needn't worry about anti-Semitism and greater-German nationalism, because they're dead. To many people, this statement is dogma. To others, it's pure untruth. Certainly the Germans have shown virtually no manifestations of a dormant Nazism in the past forty years; in fact, they have gone far to dispel Western suspicions...