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...maneuvering weren't complicated enough, Ross Perot rejoined the game again last week, making an appearance on NBC's Today show to reaffirm his unhappiness over both Bush's and Clinton's economic plans. With Arizona becoming the 50th state ready to put the Texas billionaire on the November ballot, Perot appeared on the edge of re-entering the race. "I'm trapped," he told his TV audience last Friday. "They won't sell ((TV airtime)) to me unless I declare as a candidate. So I may be the first guy in history that had to declare as a candidate...
...wore shoulder-length hair and bargain- basement clothes, and weighed an eighth of a ton -- Gaines' death last week seemed curiously neat: he had turned 70; his creation was turning 40; an exhaustive coffee-table-book history (Completely Mad) was in the bookstores; and, as if to reaffirm Mad's relevance, the current issues of two other magazines (Esquire and Texas Monthly) feature Alfred E. Neumanesque cover caricatures of would-be Presidents (George Bush and Ross Perot). Is there any American under 50 who did not as a youth experience Mad's liberating, irreverent rush? Without doubt a certain...
...want to sustain women's voices, you get involved in social change," she says. "We need to reaffirm one another's reality...
Moreover, College administrators should publicly reaffirm the rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual people by stating that homophobia has no place in a college community. Also, professors and housing personnel can invite speakers from Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual communities as well as outside facilitators to lead workshops and general discussions. Gay, lesbian and bisexual studies could also be included in the standard curriculum...
...issue was clearly hurtful, clearly offensive to many of us who disagree with its central proposition, it was not hateful. It was well within the bounds of intellectual discourse. Time and time again, Peninsula's writers deny that their opposition to homosexuality was motivated by hatred. They affirm and reaffirm that "We have no coercive capabilities; we wouldn't use them if we did." They make arguments--weak arguments, we think, but arguments nonetheless. To dismiss this issue as mere gay-bashing is simply unfair. The virulent ad hominem attacks proferred after the issue's publication, while understandable, were entirely...