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That brings us to Clinton's drug strategy, which he introduced last Wednesday in the same slick way he handled Bosnia. The President portrayed his moves as a grand departure from the drug wars of previous Administrations. Gone, though, is Clinton's promise to provide addicts with "treatment on demand" and his pledge to spend more money on education and prevention than on law enforcement. If approved by Congress, Clinton's overall antidrug budget will climb about $1 billion, but even after including the dubious allocation of $285 million for community policing as a "prevention and treatment" expense, the ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: From Sarajevo to Needle Park | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

When will Ivy League students wake up to the corruption that is all around them? The leftist press in America has been grossly negligent in not identifying and attacking the slick career system that has made deception, pretension and manipulation business-as-usual in the humanities for 20 years...

Author: By Camille Paglia, | Title: An Open Letter to the Students of Harvard | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...solution is in your hands. You can bring learning back to the center of the university. You can end the era of gimmicky theory. You can demand that quality of scholarship, rather than slick wordplay, be the standard for employment at Harvard...

Author: By Camille Paglia, | Title: An Open Letter to the Students of Harvard | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...oldest son, Biff, The audience enters the story when Biff, in his thirties, has failed to live up to his father's hopes. Confronted with Biff's refusal, Willy is forced, by the end of the play, out of his world of illusions. In the end, all the slick talk in the world can no longer suffice and he is finally reduced to admitting, "I am Nothing!..I am just what I am!" He takes his car to his final sale, killing himself to pay off the debt his life has incurred. The remainder of the play is a "requiem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short-Changed 'Salesman' | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...commercial. This was the man who could nurture a "quality" show such as Hill Street Blues while singing the praises of Punky Brewster. "He has an absolute disdain for anything intellectual," says one less-than-admiring colleague. "He'd rather eat hamburger than steak." Yet in a world of slick network suits, Tartikoff has always been one of the most articulate, thoughtful and candid programmers around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Slugger | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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