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...Columnist William Safire recently character-ized American foreign policy as a variant of the carrot-and-stick game: the promise of reward combined with the threat of punishment. The problem, he believes, is that of too much carrot and too little stick...
...University of Pennsylvania, black students who disliked a student's columns challenging affirmative action and the character of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stole 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian and said they were combating "institutional racism." At Duke University, gays who did not like a student columnist's opinion that theirs was "a dirty, sinful lifestyle that doesn't deserve any special rights" blocked his way to class and shouted epithets. At neither Penn nor Duke were the perpetrators disciplined. During the academic year that ended in June, there were 12 major incidents of U.S. campus papers stolen...
...year-olds have clamored for kidney dialysis since the technique became available. Teenagers have likewise lusted after nose jobs, and after many years of research and development, doctors (to paraphrase columnist Dave Barry) have discovered the incredible benefits of becoming rich. Each new discovery has translated into longer life expectancies and greater quality of life...
...this seems like particularly blatant bit of hyperbole. We cannot imagine portraying any present public figure in such a star-struck manner. All the talk of President Clinton's winning personality notwithstanding, any columnist who tried to describe him as "an artist...[who] painted with words and images and other people's lives" would be laughed off the editorial page...
...York Times columnist Anthony Lewis `48, author of a recent book about the First Amendment, said last night that opposition to free speech is mounting in America...