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...swing at Clinton for bypassing Tokyo en route to a summit in Beijing last summer: "You wouldn't see the Governor go to China for nine days and not go to Japan and South Korea." It was an opening shot in what promises to be a sustained and challenging salvo for Gore...
...last column, I considered writing some great ideological manifesto that would be my parting salvo against injustices here and elsewhere. Instead, I went to see "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." I decided to use the Star Wars "phenomenon" as a lens through which to examine some of the joy and wonder I've tried to write about in this space this past semester. Warning: if you haven't seen "The Phantom Menace," spoilers ahead...
...latest salvo in an ongoing dispute between Harvard's security guards and the University, guards this week charge that they had been left out of community policing policies, burdened by overtime and left in limbo in contract negotiations...
...campus, James Watson, who had won a Nobel for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA and who was then running NIH's Human Genome Project, was outraged. This wasn't science, he insisted. "Virtually any monkey" could do that work, Watson fumed in the opening salvo of a battle that would rage for months--and which smolders to this day. To patent such abbreviated genetic material, said Watson, was "sheer lunacy" that would entangle genetic research in legal issues and slow it to a crawl. When the battle was over, the NIH had withdrawn the patent proposal...
...every designer is budging. Donna Karan, Anna Sui, Todd Oldham and Betsey Johnson say they will use only fake fur--although some will use shearling. Nor is PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) backing down. Its latest salvo is a video narrated by Chloe designer Stella McCartney (daughter of Paul and Linda) that contains grisly footage of a fox farm in Illinois. And even the most hardened fashion followers are mortified that some designers are using seal fur. The farmers are fighting back, and the Fur Commission of America launched an informative, if slightly defensive, website in July...