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...strict corporate sponsor policy might also be in place because the administration predicts a dangerous form of the slippery--slope syndrome in the council's future. The council might be conservative in its use of corporate sponsors this year, but what about years to come? We certainly don't want the Yard overrun with corporate placards, nor do we want campus events to lose their student focus. While this fear is probably legitimate, it is only one minor area of concern that the council must deal with responsibly. But the council shouldn't be punished for a problem that...
...strict corporate sponsor policy might also be in place because the administration predicts a dangerous form of the slippery-slope syndrome in the council's future. The council might be conservative in its use of corporate sponsors this year, but what about years to come? We certainly don't want the Yard overrun with corporate placards, nor do we want campus events to lose their student focus. While this fear is probably legitimate, it is only one minor area of concern that the council must deal with responsibly. But the council shouldn't be punished for a problem that...
Three years ago, President Clinton promised to build us a "Bridge to the 21st Century." I still don't understand the metaphor, even as we enter the downward slope of the bridge, speeding toward the toll plaza. (Thank god for EZ-Pass.) What are we crossing over? Bridges usually get you somewhere you can't get without one, like across a river. Time will take us to the 21st century, like...
...vintage store in the dollar box. It's more satisfying to find a fabulous cheap restaurant than be a hipster at the latest over-priced hot spot. It's nice to cook, boil water and make pasta sauce. I don't want to slide down the slippery slope. I don't want to be the proper Harvard graduate and get the right kind of job and eat at the right restaurants and drink the right vodka and have the right brand of handbag. I do not want to have changed...
...first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing. Having launched himself upon the course, Stangl did a giant slalom down the slippery slope and before too long found himself working as commandant of Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland. There, Stangl presided over the death of 900,000 Jews...