Word: ops
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...great as it seems on the surface. But the fears that the devaluation has raised add ammunition to the arsenal of free-trade critics who warned that Americans would be hurt more than helped by NAFTA's close entwining of the U.S. and Mexican economies. In a blistering op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times, Ross Perot, NAFTA's most vocal adversary, declared the devaluation would cost the U.S. thousands more jobs and as much as $20 billion in lost investment capital...
...apparently, do a lot of other people. Fleiss's conviction for providing three undercover cops with high-price prostitutes has spawned angry op-ed pieces, talk-radio rantings and feminist denunciations. The standard complaint is one of fairness: of the several parties to any act of pandering, only Fleiss was singled out for prosecution. But what seems to incense Fleiss sympathizers most is the severity of the penalty, which they say dramatizes the problems of mandatory sentencing. "It reflects the worst sense of priorities of our criminal-justice system," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whom Fleiss has asked...
...When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many of whom had been drinking since the afternoon, that he castigated them in a New York Times Op Ed piece...
...North House residents aren't able to stomach this, how on earth will they be able to survive in the Real World? It would be one thing if the University decided to tear down a building, split the House and its population into two, or make North a Co-op. But a simple name change, which is a common occurrence in institutions all over the world, should not provoke reactions like these...
...question for Paglia now is where she should go from here. Print can hardly contain her, though she'd be fun as Anna Quindlen's successor on the New York Times op-ed page. TV typecasts her as a furious motormouth, though she could make the cool medium hot again as a talk-show host. Perhaps an answer can be found on the cover of Vamps & Tramps; there is Paglia, in her Pussy Galore regalia, striking a doo-wop pose. So maybe it's time for her to hit Broadway and take over the Rizzo role in Grease. Wherever Paglia...