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...Last September, it was me who wrote an article in these pages entitled "Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer." Citing Redskins support for Oliver North and and Gibbs' opposition to the Last Temptation of Christ, I wrote that I was "losing my allegiance to the team of my youth." In my most shameful moment, I even lambasted the team for failing to make the playoffs...
...youth is on Harvard's side. Sophomore midfielder Juan Betancourt came into his own this season, leading the team with four goals and three assists. Classmate Jason Luzak (1 goal, 3 assists) blew by defenseman after defenseman and should provide a spark to the Crimson offense next season...
Allan Bloom, professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, deplores the study of non-traditional subjects in the university--such as popular culture. Yet he is also fiercely critical of the effects of popular entertainment on modern American youth. In The Closing of The American Mind, Bloom rants against the corrosive influence of mass media, saying, "Life is made into a non-stop, commercially pre-packaged, masturbational fantasy." An interesting point--but one that would have been better informed by a knowledge of scholarly theory on popular culture...
...penny in order to close down WAR, its newspaper, cable TV show, and 23 telephone hot lines. In a similar $7 million lawsuit in Alabama three years ago, Dees managed to bankrupt the United Klans of America for its role in instigating the shooting and hanging of a black youth. Said Dees of his latest victory: "The jury has spoken loud and clear that in this country the First Amendment guarantees the right to hate people and say what you want, but not the right to hurt people...
...most touching and poignant cases encountered by C.C.U. staffers concerned a gravely ill youth named Carmelo. The boy had a chronic renal condition, epilepsy and heart trouble that left him, at 14, just 43 in. tall and dependent on dialysis and a battery of medications. In addition, family troubles had rendered him angry and very lonely. For more than a year, the C.C.U. "doctors" spent time with the teenager, who rarely talked and refused to walk. Then one day comic magician Mark Mitton taught him a "mind-reading" card game, and Carmelo began to open up. The boy took great...