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...problems that make its collapse inevitable, but unemployment has never been one of them. Mao Zedong's promise of the "iron rice bowl" was the traditional communist guarantee of full employment. However decrepit the economy might be, everyone would always have a job, no matter how economically redundant. You pretend to work and we pretend to pay you. And yet on Friday, even as portraits of Mao were driven through the streets of Beijing, 100 million Chinese face the prospect of joblessness with no social safety...
...however much retaining the college label may have gratified alumnae, the resulting confusion over its mission only hurt Radcliffe. Now that it no longer has to pretend to be something it is not, we are hopeful that a redefined Radcliffe can truly focus on what it is good at: advanced study focused especially on women, gender and society...
...glad Alan E. Wirzbicki ("Bleeding-Heart Conservatives", Sept. 24, 1999) read the cover story about Harvard conservatives in the current Harvard Magazine. For the record, the article "doesn't even pretend to be objective." It is a signed, personal piece of writing, just as was, for example, Andrew Tobias's "Gay Like Me," the cover story for January-February 1998, an account of the experience of being homosexual at the College and elsewhere in the University...
...there's a strange twist to the attention the media has lavished on conservative students and faculty lately. For the most part, they deal only superficially with the substantive political issues setting conservatives and liberals apart. Instead, the theme of the Harvard Magazine article--which doesn't even pretend to be objective--is that conservatives are Harvard's newest minority, a group of students stifled by a dominant liberal orthodoxy. We're supposed to come away from the article believing that at Harvard, conservatives are somehow being oppressed...
Perhaps if Bochco were the "token" in question, he would feel differently. I'm not an actor, and I don't pretend to understand that craft in particular, but my guess is that just as in any other line of work, actors like to think they've been chosen for their merits, not to offset someone's guilt or cover their bases...