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...ruling. I also realized how important good taste was for politics. During political talks, the feeling of how and when to convey something, of how long to speak, whether to interrupt or not, the degree of attention, how to address the public, forms to be used not to offend someone's dignity and on the other hand to say what has to be said, all these play a major role. All such political behavior relates to good taste in a broader sense. What I really have in mind is something more than just knowing which tie to choose to match...
...Bush Administration's reluctance to offend Beijing may cost General Dynamics a bundle. Taiwan has been trying for 10 years to buy F-16 fighter- bombers, but the U.S. has refused, in order to avoid stirring up Beijing. Washington did compromise by allowing enough technology transfers and help from General Dynamics so that Taiwan could build an indigenous defense fighter (IDF) based on the F-16. But word out of Taipei is that the initials really stand for "It Don't Fly." Now that Beijing is buying Soviet-built Su-27 fighters, Taiwan is running out of patience. Diplomatic sources...
...based on the anticipated cost of police protection. The permit fee was imposed after a series of costly civil rights marches. Said Blackmun, again ! writing for the majority: "Speech cannot be financially burdened, any more than it can be punished or banned, simply because it might offend a hostile mob." Still to come before the end of the term: 14 decisions, involving such major issues as abortion, prayer in the schools and cigarette-industry liability...
...current indulgences. There is a word for the profession of virtue accompanied by practice of vice: hypocrisy. The usual complaint in democracies is that the politicians are hypocrites. The charge is old, common and true. But the equally valid charge, less often made so as not to offend, is that the people are hypocrites...
Crimson reporters, by seeking inflammatory comments, have instigated and exacerbated tensions among ethnic groups, especially between Blacks and Jews. In the past, The Crimson has featured the chair of Hillel conjecturing as to whether or not he thought BSA intended to offend Jews by inviting speakers perceived by some as being "anti-Semitic." One student leader even mentioned at a recent Freshman Black Table (FBT)-Crimson once had asked him to comment on BSA President Art Hall's leadership...