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...harshly a paper that I wrote about U.S. economic warfare against Nicaragua because I had not included a moral justification for such action. When I asked how this sabotage could be morally justified, this buffoon actually told me that because the U.S. had defeated Hitler and Stalin, America had paramount moral stature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loose and Careless Logic at Harvard | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...once told GQ magazine. "When I die I'll go immediately to the presence of God, and yet in life I had a blast." Samaritan's Purse, like a few similar organizations, has been criticized in the foreign-aid community for evangelizing in situations when lifesaving should have been paramount. (General Norman Schwarzkopf has also sniped in print about Franklin's insistence on sending thousands of Arabic-language New Testaments into Saudi Arabia while the general was trying hard to honor Islamic sensibilities during Operation Desert Storm.) But in hot spots like the Rwandan capital of Kigali, the outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...rally by Harvard Dining Services (HDS) workers outside the Faculty Club last week attempted to exploit alleged managerial misbehavior in order to influence upcoming contract renegotiations. The message of worker "abuse" was paramount; the ploy for increased wages was less apparent. While students must sympathize with any members of the HDS staff who has been mistreated by their boss, students should not believe the purported ills of the protesting labor force justify its contemporaneous demand for more money...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: DINING FOR DOLLAR | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

...vicious cycle has been set in motion. Parents who live through their kids produce children who grow up feeling they have missed out on childhood, a time when play, pure and simple, with all its lively, unstructured freedom, should be paramount. "If a child is totally immersed in ice skating, she may become Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EVERY KID A STAR | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...upcoming shows--from Fox's Melrose Place to this Thursday's entire NBC lineup--begin and end with the new Polaroid slogan, "See what develops," and the company's logo. Meanwhile, some of the world's largest advertisers are simply starting up their own sitcoms. In a partnership with Paramount TV, Procter & Gamble is now airing Home Court on NBC and, on CBS, Almost Perfect and Good Company. The latter show is set at an ad agency where copywriters spent most of one episode ridiculing a "toilet paper with baking soda"--a product actually sold by P&G rival Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: YOUR SHOW OF SHILLS | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

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