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...garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors. Cooking noises mingle with the gurgle of kitchen-side urinals. On tiny TV sets, a few men watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each night the sounds of aching and loneliness drift down to the streets of Chinatown...
Dressed in a burgundy blazer, faded jeans and a T shirt for an appearance last week, he quoted Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia and Deep Throat (the Watergate source, not the porn flick) to lash out at his favorite targets: a corrupt campaign-finance system, the sensationalist media and, most of all, career politicians. Students in the audience at Northfield's St. Olaf College hooted, applauded and did the Wave to show their appreciation. "He wants to help people," said David Parker, a starstruck St. Olaf sophomore who plans to vote for Ventura. "He's like a father figure...
Although nationwide attention is focused on alcohol abuse, age restrictions are in place for a wide variety of goods easily accessible in the square: cigarettes, pipes, even porn...
...just the embarrassment factor we're talking about here: the guy whose wife checks out his log and finds the porn sites he hit last night. Consider how much other personal data could become available as we conduct more and more of our lives in this (thus far) happily unregulated world--investing and paying our bills online, filling our prescriptions...
First, perspective: the moral weight of a national crisis is in inverse proportion to a nation's wealth and power. America in its opulence gets presidential docu-porn--what the Washington lawyer Lloyd Cutler calls "Full Monty impeachment," the risky, tiresome romp of a resourceful President who, caught in violations of the school's honor code, violates it further in protesting his innocence...