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...Kinison and Howard Stern bring locker-room laughs to cable TV and morning radio. On network television, sitcom moms get snickers with innuendos about oral sex. In movies, the F word has become so common, like dirty wallpaper, the industry's conservative ratings board doesn't even bother to punish the occasional use of it with a restrictive R rating...
Ending direct contact with ROTC will add Harvard's significant voice to the growing pressure on the Bush administration to change this situation--but without overly harming the interests of Harvard ROTC students. What would unduly punish ROTC students is a recommendation, under consideration by the Faculty Council, that Harvard refuse to accept ROTC scholarships. Such a decision might make Harvard unaffordable for many ROTC cadets; it would also extend the University's influence into the realm of students' personal lives. No longer would Harvard be just opposing discrimination; it would be using economic leverage to force students to change...
...Lithuanians have got little more than moral support elsewhere, since the Western powers are not eager to punish Moscow for squeezing Vilnius. With the warming of East-West relations at stake, they reason, the fate of a tiny republic and its 3.7 million people -- 1.3% of the Soviet population -- does not merit a fight, unless Moscow turns truly nasty. "Everybody feels for the Lithuanians," says a senior NATO diplomat, "but everybody is keeping an eye on the bigger picture...
...PUNISH MOSCOW...
...critics said it would punish the poor, while not necessarily creating a big improvement in school attendance...