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...other kids used to go over to his house "just to watch him think." All the kids enjoyed an amazing display last week as they watched Bill Clinton thinking his way through the Haiti business. What a performance -- plates waveringly spinning on sticks balanced at the end of nose and chin and fingertips, a plate now and then wobbling and pinwheeling toward the stage, only to be deftly rescued: a mental-moral-political equivalent of the kind of act that the adolescent Bill might have watched on the Ed Sullivan Show. Here was the excitement of the President...
...reason he felt tempted by the apparently more manageable case of Haiti. But if a President asks American soldiers to go in, what is needed to answer such evils is absolute clarity and, usually, a brute counterforce. Evil is not impressed for very long by those plates spinning on nose and chin...
...Prozac Nation's press packet we encounter the following description of the author: "Witty, intelligent, and hip (nose ring, tatoo [sic]), Elizabeth Wurtzel is definitely not a Gen-X slacker." Beyond the silly assertion of nose rings and tattoos as indexes of hipness, this statement reveals what is meant as the book's selling point: that it's not just losers without jobs who are depressed, that the world is such a tough place that it would depress anyone, even a cool Harvard student. Hey, I buy it. I've been depressed too, and with many of the same symptoms...
Investigators sifting through the scattered wreckage of USAir Flight 427 are no closer to discovering why the Boeing 737 suddenly nose-dived to the ground, killing all 132 aboard. The FBI ruled out any suggestion that the aircraft was sabotaged in order to silence one of the passengers -- a drug informant who had been testifying to federal prosecutors in Chicago...
Moral Reasoning 28 student John E. Trinidad '97 is no stranger to high sourcebook prices. But just because he's accustomed to paying through the nose doesn't mean he enjoys...