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Americans may have left the remnants of their Wilsonian idealism years ago, somewhere north of the Mekong Delta. They are certainly no longer driven by a desire to "pay any price, bear any burden," as John Kennedy said, to ensure the liberties of others around the world. In a way, the crisis in the gulf brings together a fortuitously crass coincidence of American idealism and materialism; Americans look to punish the aggressor and protect their energy supplies at the same time...
...Have you felt a powerful, primal urge to reach for a six-pack of Pepsi this summer? If so, blame the packaging. Sharp-eyed Pepsi drinkers have noticed that the company's summertime series of decorative Cool Cans bear a hot message: SEX, in capital letters. When two Cool Cans of a particular design are stacked just so, the letters can be clearly discerned, running top to bottom...
...less comical. Jimmy Breslin, long famous as a champion of the dispossessed, speaks thoughtlessly and finds himself vilified as a "racist." Spike Lee, an uncommonly intelligent filmmaker whenever he remains behind the camera, maintains that films about blacks should be directed by blacks (what does this mean for The Bear, one wonders, or for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?). Lee in turn becomes an irresistible target for charges of anti-Semitism. And others contend that Marion Barry is being hounded because he is black, as if to suggest that he be excused because he is black...
Before the crisis broke, Shamir's Foreign Minister, David Levy, intended to visit Washington last week for what had promised to be a tough session. Secretary of State James Baker was prepared to bear down hard on the need to jump-start the peace process that Shamir let stall last spring. Both Bush and Congress have grown impatient with the Likud's ingenuity in finding excuses not to negotiate with the Palestinians...
...ugly element of our history had somehow crawled forward into the present and made our belief in racial progress feel like an illusion." But Hawkins' death also evoked in Steele an overwhelming sense of what he calls "racial fatigue," that inescapable burden of color that all black Americans still bear...