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Punishment beatings threaten the optimistic mood of peace that prevails in Northern Ireland. "The cease-fire means absolutely nothing to me now," says Mary Teer, Patrick's mother. Until the I.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitaries give up their vicious beatings, the legacy of the years of violence will continue to haunt Northern Ireland, and the faces of the children of war will continue to show fear...
...that anxiety Dole was speaking to when he accused the powers behind American movies, music and television of flooding the country with "nightmares of depravity.'' Warning that the more extreme products of pop culture threaten to undermine American kids, he called on the large media companies to swear off the hard stuff. "We must hold Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry accountable for putting profit ahead of common decency,'' Dole said, then raised the heat considerably by singling out one company, Time Warner, the media giant that includes the largest American music operation, the Warner film studio and a stable...
Citing race, gender and socioeconomicdifferences which threaten to divide Americansociety, Wilson said that "today there is anurgent need to earn and give respect over theboundaries of our differences...
...never seen a sitcom with a genuinely intelligent character. At least, a character who didn't have some serious personality flaw to go along with the brainpower. No, that would threaten the average American. All those smart characters must have something wrong with them. They make the perfect kind of despicable foil--superior enough to resent, yet inferior enough to dismiss. The anti-intellectual American can rest easy...
...prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next month, its new leaders promise a reformed good-government group. However, the defection of popular Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 from the group in 1993 and a breakdown in communication within the organization last year threaten to hamper the liberal group's efforts to clarify its political agenda...