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Advice columns hide behind a shroud of mundanity. Both Dear Abby's small size relative to hard-news articles and its usual oscillation between the trivial and the melodramatic disguises the column's deeper philosophical significance. Every installment is more than a mere detailing of a few individuals' kvetches about...
Let us, then, take a brief look at Carnessecca's reign at St. John's Despite sitting smack in the middle of a basketball hotland, Looie has never won it all. In fact, he's only reached the Final Four once, while every other year, his St. John's team...
Some Japanese politicians and newspapers have become more open in their contempt for America -- or what they consider American self-indulgence, moral squalor and indiscipline. Yoshio Sakurauchi, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Diet, called American workers lazy and illiterate; the U.S., he said, was becoming Japan's...
Just as Sakurauchi said. The rueful self-accusation is repeated across the U.S. Being a debtor nation, mortgaging their real estate to the Japanese, the mighty Americans, the victors of World War II, the dollar people, have lost a certain amount of face in their own estimation. They have been...
Bush's chances are boosted even more by Democratic weakness. Only when faced with the alternative of "an unnamed Democrat" do many voters opt to abandon Bush. Lightweights such as Gov. Bill Clinton, Sen. Bob Kerrey and Tsongas have failed to whet the appetite of the electorate.