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...respectful Wall Street Journal article in June and a breathless feature in the current Vanity Fair -- is thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits of conventional wisdom...
...BOTTOM LINE: A myopic, self-righteous take on the politics of ivory sheds little light on Africa's ecological tragedy...
...righteous populist, Bonner offers up a capsule sketch of awf founder Russell Train's distinguished lineage that seems to suggest racism as an explanation for Train's fears that the Africanization of wildlife staffs would spell disaster for the game. Bonner recounts a litany of condescending comments made about the Third World by upper-class Brits, including slighting remarks made by Prince Philip, an early supporter of wwf. In his centrifugal anger, however, Bonner never connects these fusillades into a coherent argument...
...waters; Garrett sings, "Computers and shovels, churches and brothels/ Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dust bowls/ Here we go again/ Hear the clamor of the feeding pen." Garrett, who ran unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate in 1984, sings like a man on a mission, his voice stoked with righteous indignation as he lashes out at racial bigotry, mindless materialism and ecological irresponsibility...
...ideal world, one in which protesters would put aside their Harvard--esque righteous indignation for one day, Powell would be an excellent choice for Harvard's Commencement speaker. However, in a world as imperfect as our own. Powell's visit will inevitably incite tension and large-scale protests...