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...excitement about Mel Gibson's recent speech in Sanders Theatre last Tuesday saddens me. I cannot understand why so many supposedly intelligent Harvard students cared so much to see a man whose remarks contained not one whit of intellectual thought. As soon as I first read in The Crimson that Gibson would be coming to Harvard, I thought to myself, "What could Mel Gibson possibly have to say?" I tried to keep an open mind that he may have something to say of substance, but Gibson soon proved my fears to be totally correct...
...United States doesn't care a whit about the Kurds! The United States has been providing helicopter gunships to Turkey so Turkey can better attack Kurdish villages. A while back, Turkey was even allowed to invade the so-caled "safe haven" in northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurds...
...official White House response was muted, gracious; Clinton advisers treated it as a bittersweet retirement party for a distinguished elder statesman. Behind the scenes, however, they cast it as an act of desperation by the loser in the battle for Pennsylvania Avenue. "It affects our plans not a whit," says senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. They know Dole will get a bump in the polls and a push from the press. "The press will be determined to give Dole this moment to tighten up the race," press secretary Mike McCurry says slyly, "because they're so pathetically bored right...
WHERE WOULD LATE 20TH CENtury pop culture be without Jane Austen, literature's first great chronicler of the young, the idle and the sardonic--not to mention the romantically addled? Without Austen's fine-boned fiction we might never have had an Ethan Hawke, a Whit Stillman or an NBC Thursday-night lineup...
Whitacre's cover was blown after the FBI raided ADM offices on June 27. By prearrangement, agents interviewed Whit acre along with other executives to make it appear that he was no different. The FBI warned Whitacre to get an attorney without ties to ADM. But the advice was given casually, and Whitacre did not keep it in mind. As a result, Whitacre spent four hours talking to attorney John Dowd, whom ADM had hired. The next morning, Whitacre said in his magazine account, "someone at ADM called me and said, 'Hey, Dwayne told me your attorney just told...