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...against Canada's government-sanctioned seal hunts in which baby seals are clubbed to death: I agree with the Humane Society of the U.S.'s boycott of all Canadian seafood. In many former whale-hunting areas, the locals earn their income from whale-watching tours. Let's turn the tide from baby-seal slaughter to seal watching...
Sure, escape routes occasionally come up in the form of powerful indie labels that can challenge the tide. But they are overwhelmingly the minority, and make up such a small percentage of the commercial music scene that they’re more like the boiler pressure vents than real changes—the majors allow them to exist because they can satisfy the artistic elite, and so the majors don’t need to change their own operating strategies to appeal to the outspoken Pitchfork crowd (nothing against Pitchfork, mind...
...tide of immigrants changing the face of New York does not threaten me. If America is as good to these newcomers and benefits as much from their efforts as it did from those of my parents, who arrived in 1913, then all will be well. Rabbi Ronald Millstein Great Neck...
...troubles of financial giant BankAmerica were hardly a secret. A red tide of loan losses has swelled over the past four years, and Chairman Samuel Armacost last month forecast little or no profit for the second quarter. Still, the financial community was stunned when BankAmerica last week announced a net loss of $338 million for that period. It was the second-worst quarterly deficit in U.S. banking history (after Continental Illinois' $1.1 billion loss in the second quarter...
...year-old Afrikaner liberal who heads the Progressive Federal Party: "I think Afrikaners are now more willing to explore possibilities of coexistence, and that is definitely a new development." Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country and onetime leader of the now defunct Liberal Party, says, "The tide has turned. There are some people who expect that we're going to go from low tide to high tide in two years' time. But I have absolutely no doubt that a difficult and painful process of evolution is going on, evolution for the better." Afrikaner Theologian Nico Smith notes...