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...election would mean to a generation whose first political act was both protesting -- and serving in -- an unpopular war. "If I win," he said softly, "it will finally close the book on Vietnam." Whether marching in the streets or marching in uniform, Vietnam introduced baby boomers to the sober realities of power. Another generation chose Vietnam as a battleground, but in very personal terms Clinton and his peers had to face the consequences of that decision. Now a child of postwar prosperity has ascended to the presidency. How both Bill Clinton and his generation adjust to their newfound power will...
...viewers, in fact, Bush seemed to adopt an almost elegiac tone, as if he knew he had lost and had decided to bow out with dignity -- though that may have been primarily a consequence of a format that brought the candidates in front of a quizzical audience demanding a sober discussion of issues...
...this year's political ads are surprisingly sober, businesslike and to the point. Gone, for the most part, are the warm, fuzzy "image ads" of campaigns past -- candidates frolicking with kids on the beach. There is little of the slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater spot from 1964 (a little girl with a daisy, interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing...
True education diversity can exist at Harvard only when all groups in society are on equal educational footing. Until then, it is better to accept the sober fact that it's not Harvard's fault that certain groups are underrepresented, just as as we recognize that Harvard contributed nothing to the growing representation of Asian Americans...
...broken with a bat, is exactly the kind of guy who makes getting out so problematic. Although he acknowledges some qualms about cracking the heads of close friends who want out of the gang, he has a simple technique for dealing with his conscience. "I've never done it sober," he admits sheepishly. "Only time I do it is when I'm high or drunk and you know you just get going with the guys and get yourself really worked...