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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Germanys hurtle toward unification, politicians worry about how soon it should happen and who will be the leader of the new nation. Last week Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged even speedier progress, hoping to give his Christian Democratic Party -- and Kohl -- an edge. His allies proposed advancing the date for all-German elections...
Earlier this month, several students collected more than 100 signatures on a petition calling on the College to make a mandatory date rape workshop part of the orientation week...
...while administrators agreed to mention date rape in the mandatory meeting, in a letter to the petition signers they stopped short of meeting their demand for a required workshop...
...have met guys like Joey O'Brien (Robin Williams) before, most recently in Tin Men. He is the scuzzball salesman of every consumer's nightmares. For him, selling is more than a job and less than an honorable passion; it is not unlike date rape, against which neither resistance nor entreaty is an effective countermeasure. In Cadillac Man, he is discovered pulling up to a stalled funeral procession, to see if he can unload a replacement hearse on the desperate undertaker. While he's at it, he takes a shot at selling the bereaved widow one of his luxury cars...
...raised a special problem: how to get young adults interested in political coverage. I offered the opinion that 19-year-olds who sit in front of a television watching politics could use professional help. At that age they should be playing ball and looking for a date. They'll have time enough at my age to worry about the mortgage and choosing a candidate on the basis of his views on monetary policy...