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Well, it would be lovely if the political dialogue could be conducted totally in terms of the general welfare, with no invidious arguments that seek to divide Americans from one another. And it would be swell if no politician ever suggested that an opponent was serving class interests that differed from those of the voters being addressed. But that is not the world we live in. In the real world, Republicans have been skilled and ruthless practitioners of class warfare themselves. "Us vs. them" has been the Republican theme in every recent election, and it has usually worked. Indeed...
Meanwhile, the Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. keeps expanding. Somphong hopes to earn millions of dollars from legal trade in crocodile skins and crocodile meat, which he claims is the best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come...
Unless you happen to be a tribal elder with a taste for geological metaphors. To the old chief, Tristan is the rock everyone ``broke themselves against,'' and a good thing too, since from their suffering he gains ``his honor and a long life.'' Swell, but we're left with our stifled laughter and a very long movie...
Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time in America that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...
...preliminary swell of the third wave is crashing in now: the computer- driven Information Age, when people no longer trudge off to factories or offices but sit at home in "electronic cottages," using their modems and faxes and keyboards to cruise cyberspace. These voluntary shut-ins are not merely customers anymore but "prosumers" using and adding to the daily flow of data. Synergies run rampant. The world is becoming the oyster of computer literates...