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...inclusive. There is a lot of idiocy going on around us waiting to be noticed. Like the absurdly few number of left handed chairs in lecture halls. Or the printing of new editions of textbooks that are virtually identical to past editions, different enough only to render to old versions unusable--this resting on the dual falsities that students are so tremendously wealthy that they can afford never to buy used books, and that the environment has an unlimited supply of trees for us to chop down. With minimal effort you're bound to find some more BAD ideas...
...staff position cloaks its virulent antireligious bias none too well. Although it feigns agreement with President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision not to judge the issue, the staff nonetheless believes itself more equipped than the president to render a decision. Witness its disdainful insinuation that only "a Biblical literalist" could believe that the Bible condemns homosexual acts...
Some negatives have already been identified. One of the reasons Clinton leads in the polls is that Democrats are buying the notion that his centrist policies render him electable against Bush. Now, says Maryland Democratic chairman Nate Landow, "some inside the party are worried about what the Republicans would do to him with this issue in the general election...
...difficulties of making it work are immense. Of all people, Joseph Stalin gave the most eerily prophetic description. When the Soviet Union was founded on Dec. 30, 1922, he enumerated the conditions attending its birth: "devastated fields, factories at standstill, destroyed productive powers and exhausted economic resources render insufficient the separate efforts of separate republics in economic reconstruction." The union is now dying of exactly the same ills, and its heirs have yet to prove that they know how to build something better...
...American culture. The transfusion is substantial: the New York City Poetry Calendar currently lists an average of 15 gatherings each night. In Los Angeles the Poetry Hotline gives updates on readings; meanwhile, celebrities like Joe Spano, who played sensitive Sergeant Henry Goldblume on TV's Hill Street Blues, render their favorite poems in trendy spots like the Chateau Marmont. "Poetry deserves to be heard," he says...