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Peninsula, by asserting that society must have some grounding in morality, is attempting to restrain Harvard from a slide into nihilism, and this should give its left-wing critics pause. No one today advocates the policy that homosexuals (to pick the current pet cause of campus liberals) be exterminated. Society agrees that such a policy would be evil. If the left gets what it wants, i.e. the moral vacuum of relativism, in another twenty years anything will be morally possible. Mike Reynolds '91 President, Harvard Conservative Club

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Peninsula an Island? Conservatives Defend New Mag | 3/20/1990 | See Source »

...left of the studio, bathed in colors. The actors portraying them, too numerous to mention here, are often very effective in their performances. And some attempt seems to have been made to coordinate the color filters of the lights with the characters of the callers--angry callers in red, pet-loving men in light blue, and anti-nuclear power advocates in lime green...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: Laughing at It All on the Radio: | 3/16/1990 | See Source »

...carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side of the cockpit as Turner cut the switch and saluted. In a back room at the Garber Facility, Gilmore, long ago a grown lion, proudly presides, beautifully stuffed and stored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...where, oh, where has my little dog gone?" That old musical question now has a modern answer. A California-based company called Infopet is selling a - computer-age tag: a microchip that is easily implanted between a pet's shoulder blades. The semiconductor carries a ten-digit code, which can be read by a scanner. When the code is punched into Infopet's computers, an animal's finder can obtain such data as the pet's license number, medical condition and, most important, the owner's phone number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETS: The Fido Finder | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...absolutely must come up with a pet name for your interviewer, use one that connotes respect, such as "coach," rather than a more pejorative name such as "scooter" or "big mama...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No-Nos of Job Interviews | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

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