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Despite the stakes, NAFTA has not made much of a splash in the U.S. presidential campaign . . . so far. The main reason is that Bill Clinton generally supports the idea of a free-trade treaty and believes it is in the best interest of American labor, at least over the long term. But he has criticized Bush Administration negotiators for not doing enough to protect American workers. "The President made clear representations on labor standards," Clinton said, "and there appears to be very little of that in the agreement...
...biggest dispute was over broadcast advertising. Jordan, in charge of strategy, wanted to get started quickly. Perot approved some preliminary work but deferred any final decisions. He had made his initial splash on TV talk shows and insisted that he could continue to communicate that way for free. The argument that he had to reach a much broader audience left him cold...
...past Columbus on his column pointing to the New World; by the crown of thorns of the 13th century cathedral La Seu; by the unfinished confection of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, its eight towers reaching to the sky even as the divers speed downward, trying not to make a splash...
Inevitably, though, the athletes will make a splash -- as they have since the ancient Games. The antique spectacle was especially ferocious, even if the prize was not gold, silver or bronze, just a simple olive wreath from the sacred tree outside the Temple of Zeus in Olympia. But those leaves were the sole prize; there was no concept of place and show -- only winning. Contestants cried, "The wreath or death!" In fact, the Greek word for contest, agon, has become rather painful in English. But the rewards of victory were enormous: places of honor, money, sinecures and the admiration...
Things went on in this vein for a few more songs. From where I was standing in back (out of the splash zone) I got a pretty good view of the crowd. They seemed surprisingly unaffected by the carnage onstage. Most of these straggly teenagers weren't laughing, they weren't flinching, they just sort of bounced to they beat. They didn't appear to be viewing this with quite the sardonic enthusiasm of most fans of cult culture...