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...Clinton Administration officials predicted that a broad range of countries, including most of Africa, would do the same. (South Africa, which is floating its own proposal to sell stockpiled rhino horns, is likely to be a notable exception.) With such widespread opposition, the chance of resuming sales is almost zero...
...part because he was able to reflect the dark and roiling energies of young America. As early as 1964, he saw Ronald Reagan as "the prototype of the new mythological American...who will probably someday be President." One year earlier he noticed that Richard Nixon was indestructible, "a vengeful Zero with nine lives." Thompson, in fact, was that loneliest of creatures, an idealist without illusions, ready to kowtow to no one and as contemptuous of beatniks and hippies as of the "rotarians" they rebelled against. Surveying the 1960s like a clenched Kerouac, he lamented the death of John Kennedy...
...they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
Fred Scott '95 hit a basket to put Harvard up 56-55, and then power forward Darren Rankin '96 banked in a three-pointer with the shot clock near zero. Penn still couldn't bring Harvard down to earth...
This arrangement has been complicated by the influx of tens of thousands of women into the armed forces since the early 1980s. Many married service members have chosen to cheat with one another instead of using prostitutes. Linda Bird Francke notes in her new book, Ground Zero, that 64% of the Air Force personnel responding to a Roper Poll of Gulf War units reported sexual activity in their squads. Not that it bothered them: 77% of the Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization...