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The practice of making AIDS patients into AIDS celebrities should cease. As past experiences show, the media is bound to be selective about which sufferers it publicizes as innocent victims and which remain among the anonymous masses of the great unwashed. This differentiation tends to occur along already existing lines...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Ordinary People | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Not all the new families are as dysfunctional as the one on Good & Evil, but few seem very happy together, at least initially. In ABC's Step by Step, two single parents (Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers) marry and merge their respective three-child broods; the kids are at one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Sitcom Played Out? | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ISSUES | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

It's true that powerful images are not equivalent to rational discourse. Tough. No one ever said that democracies would make purely rational decisions. That's part of the price of granting sovereignty to the unwashed masses. Anyway, are there purely rational answers to these highly emotional public policy questions...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Facing Up to Death | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Em' Hell | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

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