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...Crimson is devoted to commemorating one of the greatest men in our country's history, something is defintely wrong--with us, the students. You'd think the crime of the century had been commited, the way angry undergrads ranted and raved about the University's actions--only to reject the idea of building a shelter for the homeless because the project was "A difficult, expensive, time-consuming, labor-consuming effort." Well, defeating racism is a similar task, but its problems and side effects can never be overcome unless people take the first step and admit that this country still...
...filth anytime, but especially now in the Christmas season? The author takes the Magnificat, the great prayer of Mary wherein She praises God: "My sould doth magnify the Lord. My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." etc. and has the film character, Mary, curse God, use obscenities, and reject her child...
Carlos Fuentes' relationship with the United States is an ambiguous one, a love-hate relationship. "Sometimes we welcome each other, sometimes we reject one another," he says of the U.S. When he was growing up in Washington, Fuentes experienced not only Dick Tracy, Citizen Kane and the New Deal but also the anti-Mexican feelings which developed during the late 1930s when Mexico nationalized its oil industry. Fuentes says he has since faced frequent trouble entering the United States...
That the networks have acted in their own interest is apparent. What is needed is a means of making the public interest the networks' interest. The first step should be to eliminate the networks' right to reject public-service announcements. Next, a commission should be organized, perhaps under the auspices of the non-profit Ad Council, to review public-service messages. Finally, the networks should grant this commission some appropriately large amount of credit, to be "spent" as the commission chooses on the purchase of airtime. The latter would prevent the networks from continuing to air public-service messages...
...saturated the media. Speakes and Djerejian, trying to find a way to get Reagan equal time, prepared a letter suggesting a Reagan interview. They pressed it on Gennadiy Shishkin of TASS when he came by the White House in September. He read it on the spot and did not reject the idea. The world was changing...