Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president's daughter, Utopia, disagrees with her father's policies and rebels against him. After swiping the key to a weapon that would destroy all the world's power sources and send humankind back to the dark ages, she runs away to Los Angeles. The president recruits Snake to penetrate the seedy depths of the world's most lawless city to recover the device. To raise the stakes, the president's thugs inject Plissken with a virus that gives him only a few hours to live. The big question, of course, is whether Plissken can recapture the device and survive...
...again. As he tells it, his effort to establish a national Reform Party is about creating a vehicle to take the country to the promised land of balanced budgets, clean politics and democracy so pure that voters could veto tax hikes by referendum. Who would drive this bus to Utopia? Well, Perot has been scouting for someone he describes as "George Washington II." For months no one volunteered for that role. But now Richard Lamm, former Democratic Governor of Colorado, is auditioning, and Perot must decide whether to treat him as a protege or a threat...
...Clearly it's not a communist utopia, but I don't think there's huge gaping class differences, huge problems over class," Weld says. "I think Harvard, like the Vatican, is an organization that tends to think long term, and since it seems clear that it has decided it wants a more egalitarian, diverse student body it's probably going to get it sooner or later. It's pretty close...
...Harvard is some kind of utopia, then it should try to create an atmosphere of harmony. Obviously racial differences and racial tension will not magically disappear once randomization has been completed in three years, but they don't have to. That is something that could never be forced because it requires willingness on both sides, but at least this way, Harvard will feel less like two universities that share the same classrooms and more like one university united...
...Scottsdale Arizona, but it might as well be the moon for its resemblance to typical American life: luminous sunsets, clean safe streets, fancy modern flats or mansions for each character. Either Whittaker's on some secret publicity campaign for Arizona, or else the world's newest utopia is right under our noses--unlikely in that enlightened Arizona refused to celebrate Martin Luther King Day just a few years...