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Harvard is a lonely place for conservatives, and the more liberals attempt to silence us, or exclude us from the campus debate by name-calling and diabolization, the more shrill will our rhetoric have to become...
Choate's latest book, Agents of Influence (Knopf; $22.95), an impassioned, sometimes shrill, but always well-documented expose of Japan's lobbying muscle in Washington, will not be published for two weeks. But already the bearded and earnest economist is becoming the most divisive figure in Washington since Robert Bork. For Choate, in his book, identifies dozens of former top U.S. officials and politicians (such as Elliot Richardson, Stuart Eizenstat and Charles Manatt) whose firms represent Japanese clients, and he raises serious questions about the ethics of that practice...
...mounted partly at taxpayer expense. While the U.S. has been riven for months by a controversy over federal funding for a photo show that includes nine erotic pieces, governments in East and West Germany collectively spend up to $1.5 billion a year to underwrite theaters that can be shrill, confrontational, even arguably obscene, but also aggressively intellectual, exactingly avant-garde -- and, frequently, breathtakingly good. That may be why German playgoers applaud works that would send spectators elsewhere hurtling toward the exits...
Like any other wounded animal, the tobacco industry is lashing back. Realizing that their flat-earth rhetoric about the "inconclusive" and "tenuous" links between smoking and disease is no longer fooling anybody, their defense has become more shrill, more cagey. Call it a three-pronged attack; the metaphor conjures up images of pitchforks, which nicely complement the satanic motif already inherent in fire, smoke and self-inflicted suffering...
...also recognize that the Sandinistas are not going to fade away. They remain the largest and best-organized political party in the country, and some still see them as social reformers. Bush's habitual low-key reaction to stunning change was welcome last week, in contrast to years of shrill U.S. rhetoric. Administration officials were publicly gracious to outgoing President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, careful to praise his commitment to fair elections and his apparent reasonableness -- so far -- in defeat...