Word: soapbox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Tenney canvasses Weld, her running mate takes up the soapbox in Thayer. Over the course of two-and-a-half hours, Leonard pushes his ticket. But he spends almost as much time explaining what the council is and how it works...
...release of a federal report on homelessness merits some polite yawns and space on page 17A. But bring it out amidst a Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton fight on the issue that has everyone interested (even noted wonk Rosie O'Donnell has used her show as an anti-Rudy soapbox) and suddenly we're all very intrigued...
...pages. See the museums, try out extracurriculars, look hard for classes you'll really like and do well in them during your first year at Harvard. But Harvard students are good listeners, so I won't bore you again with your own miraculous academic opportunity. I'll spend my soapbox time on a more important subject. You may not know it, but your world is about to become three-dimensional, and you better be ready...
Others will use this event as concrete evidence of the decline of family values and warn of the consequences of national moral atrophy. I hope that they will hesitate before jumping up on their soapbox. It's okay to campaign for family values...
True enough, Mr. Franken, true enough. But I think that as a society we still do not have to tolerate and promote utter and total garbage--which is exactly what Greaseman and his show are. Let Greaseman find a soapbox in Jasper, Texas from which to spout. Or let him seek counseling and try to beat his demons. Either way, the time has come to say: "Enough is enough; even the media has a shred of decency and self-respect." Yours Daniel. Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...