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Editor's Note: Joshua M. Sharfstein was supposed to write an opinion piece for today. Instead, the Social Studies concentrator selfishly chose to work on his thesis. As he ran out of the Crimson building towards Widener--mumbling something about "not graduating"--a stack of papers fell out of his bag. We were able to reconstruct the following from his notes...
George Bush sits in the soft light of the Oval Office, tilted back in his chair, brow knitted, rimless glasses in his restless hands, then on his nose, then off again. He suddenly swivels, points a long forefinger at a stack of papers in the center of his neat desk. It is Amnesty International's report on Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait. He's just been asked about compromising with Saddam Hussein...
...wrong. One of these groups came to my very first class. I had arrived 20 minutes early, with a box of blue Bic pens and a stack of clean, white Harvard notebooks. Soon, hundreds of people surrounded me, chattering and laughing and introducing themselves to each other...
...shelled out for mail-order purchases and donations. Curse it though Americans may, the great outpouring of third-class communication can provide an antidote to loneliness, access to hard-to-find goods and a convenient answer to a housebound or time-pressed shopper's prayers. Careful study of this stack offers a handy citizen's guide to the most urgent political, environmental and social issues of the day. Cast in the best light, direct mail is the great American transcontinental linkup. It binds one nation, under Ed McMahon, indivisible, with bonus coupons and toll-free shopping...
...unlucky enough to merit a presidential visit have been putting as much distance as possible between themselves and the party leader. Last week, at a breakfast in Burlington, Vt., Representative Peter Smith ticked off his differences with Bush while the Commander in Chief sat nearby, determinedly mowing down a stack of pancakes. Later, at a fund-raising lunch in Manchester, N.H., for Representative Robert Smith, who is trying to graduate to the Senate, the candidate didn't bother to show up at all. One White House aide tried to explain away the trip's miscues as "a study in ineptitude...