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...dinner conversation with TIME editors, Castro says capitalism ``is a catastrophe for the world'' and denounces its effects on the environment. In Europe we know that communism did nothing to preserve our planet. But we also know that ecological neglect was forced on the people of Eastern Europe as long as the two systems were competing for world domination. When communism ceased to be its adversary, capitalism should have changed its system of values. Instead, as Castro says, it keeps on ``digging its own grave...
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...planet inhabited by the anti-affirmative action activists, the only form of discrimination left is the kind that operates against white males. There, in the name of redressing ancient wrongs, white men are routinely shoved aside to make room for less qualified women and minorities. These favored ones have no problems at all-except for that niggling worry that their colleagues see them as underqualified "affirmative-action babies.'' Maybe there was once an evil called racism in this charmed place-30 or 300 years ago, that is-but it's been replaced by affirmative action...
Meanwhile, aggrieved white men can console themselves with the gains their wives have made. Numerically speaking, white women are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action, and because white women tend to marry white men, it follows that white men are, numerically speaking, among the top beneficiaries too. On this planet, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan may not have been able to figure that out yet, but most white guys, I like to think, are plenty smart enough...
...Arts desk. She had an incurable desire for Camel trinkets: the t-shirts, Zippos and fishing lures. In the process of cashing in her Camel Bucks she unwittingly signed herself up for a host of freebies from the National Smokers' Rights Alliance and every toxic chemical company on the planet. It's cultural studies--when art meets commerce, advertising happens--and it merits a review...