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...wanted the heroes to be strong, tough and cool," says Craig McCracken, the show's creator. "The juxtaposition of their being really cute and really strong seemed more interesting than if they had been muscley guys. People are starting to accept that girls are cool, and girlie things are cool." Schamus, who has daughters ages 4 and 8, thinks the Powerpuff Girls offer positive action role models: "My daughters are provided with more tools to gain confidence in the mastery of their own lives...
...pile of condemnations of the paper thieves. What is most concerning about the Brown debacle is not the theft or its intellectually dishonest defenders, but rather the assumption, equally shared by the Third World coalition and many of its detractors, that newspapers are ideological monoliths--that the decision to accept an ad or revise a story can be motivated only by political biases and not by honest deliberation on journalistic principles. After all, the Daily Herald printed the advertisement even though it has taken no position on reparations for slavery in the last two years, and The Crimson chose...
...preparing editorial content, however, business considerations are ignored, and the need to inform readers is paramount. Indeed, after The Crimson chose not to accept the advertisement, its editorial department contacted Horowitz and offered to consider an opinion piece on the subject, an offer he refused. The Crimson's news department also included the full text of the ad as an illustration to its March 7 story, judging that readers would not be able to understand the issue in context without having access to Horowitz's statements. No uproar followed, proving that Harvard's student body is able to listen...
Whether or not to accept the advertisement is a valid decision for newspapers to make, and neither conclusion legitimates the response of stealing newspapers. Indeed, the copies of the Herald that were stolen did not even contain the offending ad, but only articles defending it. The theft was pure retribution, and the tenor of the "demands" levied by the protesters--free advertising space, the donation of the purchase price to campus minority organizations--seem to indicate a desire for payback rather than a concern for standards. The arguments to justify the theft--that it was not theft because the Herald...
Readers will recall that Horowitz submitted the ad; The Crimson turned down the ad but suggested Horowitz re-do the piece as an op-ed and submit it in that form, whereupon The Crimson would consider accepting it under its normal op-ed standards. Horowitz refused, writing that since "your editors have censored my ad, why would I have any reason to believe that they would accept anything I wrote on this subject for publication...