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...believe that anyone is to blame for this feeling, but simply that steps must be taken to correct...
...Harvard's Spring Best" (College, April 20): I was actually at Brown this weekend, visiting a friend. While the article was correct in that Sonic Youth did play at Brown, it neglected to mention that tickets to the event cost $13 for Brown students and $16 for everyone else. Not to mention that much of the campus was blocked off, meaning that even if you weren't going to the concert you couldn't just hang out. My friend and I decided we weren't going to pay that much to hang out on the lawn for a couple...
...sensed that the battle for Washington may be won or lost in Tinseltown. "To get the kind of support it needs in the U.S., Annan knows he has to reach out to America beyond Washington," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He's launching an offensive to try and correct some of the bizarre perceptions of the United Nations that pervade America at present." Think "Titanic" with black helicopters...
...headlines were sensational, and the editorial writers were not far behind in drawing the politically correct conclusion: PROPOSITION 209 SHUTS THE DOOR (New York Times). In the relentless campaign against Proposition 209, which in 1996 abolished racial preferences in California, the "plunge" in minority students accepted for next fall at the University of California is political dynamite, alleged proof that the new color-blind admissions policy shuts the schoolhouse door in the face of minorities...
...Object of My Affection walks the tightrope on a number of boundary lines--hanging dangerously between comedy and melodrama, intelligence and triteness, and between politically correct and glaring offensive. But it never finds its "zone." The movie seems unnecessarily forced and cautious. "Laugh at this!" it tells you. "Cry now!" it yells. In between these climactic urges for audience emotion, The Object of My Affection stomps all over thin ice. Though mindfully tries for fluffy appeal, it ends up cracking under the weight of its cautiousness...