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...often asked after a Baghdad trip why these hard-pressed people don't rebel against Saddam. The middle class has fallen the furthest and would seem to be a vast pool of potential discontent. But U.S. agents have attempted to stir them to rebellion with scant success. That the middle class is not in a revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming...
...listened intently to all non-student speeches, she ignored [Megan L.] Peimer '97 and [Corinne E.] Funk '97 as they spoke, instead reading the contents of a folder she carried on-stage with her, observers said." Readers wondered if "unnamed observers" was really code for "Crimson reporter trying to stir up trouble...
...election of 1996 had less whoop and holler than it might have, it was because the electorate had become like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the nighttime: the dog did not stir because it knew its master. Not that people didn't care about the election. They knew what was coming, because they had ordered it up themselves. They felt the country was doing O.K., and at the same time they understood that the government they were about to put in place was unlikely to have anything to do with their lives...
Like the Main Street that guides customers into Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...
...allusion to Murphy Brown, Dole hardly got 24 hours before he had to backtrack, admitting that perhaps the movie was too violent for children under 13 or 14, after which attention faded. We may finally be entering a period when flogging values issues creates less and less of a stir. Yes, people are disgusted with vulgar entertainment and its impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things it can do. While the religious right was busy with prayer in classrooms, enforced motherhood...