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...However, shallow characterizations of many groups, whether ethnic, regional or occupational, are a standard feature of modern culture. The Harvard community alone offers many examples: "Adams House members all wear black, smoke and read Derrida," or "statistics concentrators all wear hornrimmed glasses and bowties," for instance...
...malls and office complexes -- has made deluges more dangerous by robbing the terrain of its natural ability to absorb rainwater. Water racing across concrete or asphalt travels up to 10 times as fast as it does across a meadow. Often it is funneled into streams and creeks too narrow, shallow and winding to accommodate the rushing runoff...
Lest they be accused of shallow materialism, the Body Shop maintains its unrelenting environmentalist stance by using real fruit flavors in the soaps--and shaping them to resemble various endangered species...
...cannot prove -- only history can -- that such a fevered reading of a shallow recession is unwarranted. But one can show that it is not that unusual. America has a deserved reputation for optimism, but it does have a tradition of pessimism that would do any Middle European nation proud...
Buchanan, at minimum, can embarrass Bush by harping on the President's seeming indifference to the nation's domestic problems. Bush's obsession with foreign affairs would have caused him little political grief had the recession been short and shallow. But the downturn's severity, together with Bush's slowness in taking steps to combat it, have left him open to the charge that his attention begins at the ocean's edge. The President betrayed his worries about such attacks last week when he responded to Buchanan's charges, "We must not pull back into some isolationist sphere, listening...