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Araton and Bondy purport to be taking a truly objective look at the Boston Celtics. In the introduction, they claim their personal basketball loyalties are "balanced enough," as Araton "was a Celtic fan from childhood...
Harvard Square's The Body Shop (1440 Mass. Ave.) and Origins (8 Brattle St.) purport to be the answer for these modern-day dilemmas, providing alternatives to ecologically and medically unsafe cosmetics...
...benefit the wealthiest three percent of the country and would do nothing to help the 17 million jobless Americans. The supply-side economics that Bush preaches, as Presidential candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says, belongs in the "trash bin of history, along with communism." Both economic doctrines, which purport to help everyone, serve only a select sliver of society; the rest suffer...
Liberals should hate rent control because it violates every principle they purport to embrace. It contributes to the housing shortage and to homelessness. It benefits those who need it least and forces the expense on those who can least afford...
...dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing drugs as the sole cause of their children's problems, rather than as a symptom...