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...plot, Space Jam is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy's most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn't renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts...
...long-hyped Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny collaboration. In plot, 'Space Jam' is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy?s most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsey Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn?t renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts. There are the requisite inside jokes involving butt-kissing (Daffy plants a smooch...
...Rage of a Privileged Class, black employees throughout corporate America often must struggle against subtle glass ceilings as well as outright racial hostility. The solution to this dilemma may well be more--not less--affirmative action. Without explicit and enforced preference programs, black advancement may be stifled at token levels...
...Americans meander to the polls today, I offer a token declaration on behalf of what is now a small but growing political minority. There are no more sweeping government solutions. More importantly, there are fewer and fewer alleged solutions that are even politically viable--hence, we will be left with a United States President rightly described by The Crimson's editorial dissent ("Lesser of Two Evils," November 4) as "ideologically bankrupt." Government cannot keep pace with the dynamic forces of even a nominally free society...
Morris is a political newcomer running against a popular 14-year incumbent, but says Bob Wise has met only "token opposition." Because the Second District has given Republican presidential candidates 53% of its votes since 1980, Morris says it's time for a G.O.P. Congressman. Though he's against Big Government, Morris calls for strengthening West Virginia's aged infrastructure, implying that it might not be wise to send a Democrat to a House where the other party controls the purse strings...