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Last week's presidential and vice presidential debates introduced the nation to a new phenomenon in national politics. Instead of trying to score a knock-out punch with a witty insult or a derogatory swipe at a rival's character, the candidates are now attempting to appear as amicable as possible. They insist that they are actually good friends and that the differences between them are purely ideological, not personal...
...expected, and soon. Explaining the disappointing prospects, AT&T reminded analysts that its core business, long-distance phone service, remains under intense pressure from new and old rivals. Even so, says Simon Flannery, an analyst with J.P. Morgan, many investors hoped the second-quarter trouble "was a one-quarter phenomenon and that things would improve. People who bought stock on that hope were probably disappointed and sold it." Which is not to say that the so-called trivestiture was a mistake. AT&T would probably be worse off had it held on to its equipment-manufacturing and computer businesses...
These huddled masses waiting for the shuttle are a new and unsightly phenomenon. It used to be, back in the old days of last year, that you could saunter up the stairs from breakfast at 9:52 and still secure a place on the 9:55 shuttle, getting to Mass. Ave. by 10 and to class by 10:05. No more. It's a jungle out there...
...foreign policy more confused than in the Arab world. Reading of the violent seizure of Kabul, Afghanistan by fundamentalist forces only several days ago, one is unable to comprehend the casual and ambivalent way in which many of our nation's policy-makers seem to view this phenomenon...
Luckily, or frighteningly, this seems to be a national phenomenon, not a Harvard-specific one. A professor recently quoted an October 13, 1993 article in the Boston Globe, still disconcertedly timely, in which Michael Grunwald christened this trend the Gapification of America. (Ironically enough, not only did most of the people in the class look the part, but two women were wearing nearly identical Gap flannel shirts over their light blue jeans). In this ultimate triumph of Gap culture," Grunwald writes, we are players in and spectators of the "commercial homogenization of the middle classes...