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Perot devotes much of his anti-NAFTA polemic (a book jingoistically entitled Save Your Job, Save Your Country) to listing the ways in which NAFTA will benefit Mexico, Asia and Europe. The incorrect implication is that anything good for the rest of the world must be bad for the United...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: The NAFTA Debate's Quiet Bigotry | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

Schreiber launches his latest polemic by saying that Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's moral condemnation of homosexuality lacks any logical foundation and doesn't even deserve a rational response. Schreiber then ends by comparing Mansfield and Peninsula editor Rob Wasinger to "immature children" who are only encouraged by the attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columnist Self-Righteous and Unconstructive | 11/5/1993 | See Source »

In a review so deft that even its target has quoted it with pleasure, Walter Kerr once observed that Neil Simon did not have an idea for a new play that season but wrote it anyway. Jonathan Tolins, a 26-year-old Harvard graduate with Simonesque style and polemic aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If Baby Grows Up Gay? | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

"Un Coeur En Hiver" is an indefatigably French movie, filled with minute conversation, coolly beautiful women, pensive silences and an impassioned polemic on the death of high art. There is also always a bottle or two of mineral water lying about, so much so that you wonder if somebody somewhere...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Not Quite Love at First Sight | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

The department is political but not polemic or dogmatic. One of the strength of the department is its determination top stay away from racial ideologies;

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, Rebecca M. Wand, and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Afro-Am Studies Grows Under New Leadership | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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