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When Dorm Crew suffered from labor shortages last year, the Adams House bathroom of Kate F. Douglas '02 , became a haven of filth and dirt which accumulated "a layer of black unidentifiable substance," she says...
...name of "our young people" and "our children." And these days, post-Columbine and Eminem, the popular culture seems to have become the principle "enemy-of-the-children," with everyone from Lynne Cheney to our would-be moralist-in-chief, Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, inveighing against the filth and obscenity peddled to America under the cloak of "free speech" and "artistic expression." This rhetoric, self-serving though it may be, is at least a sign that America still possesses the capacity for outrage. And outrage is an appropriate response to the brutal misogyny of Slim Shady--or the John...
There's a billboard in Times Square sponsored by Adidas. It reads, "New York Yankees--25 World Championships--We'll Try to Do Better Next Century." I say, burn down the Adidas shop on Mass. Ave. for flying this filth...
...caught--1,500 were repatriated last year--but most succeed in joining the estimated global tide of 275,000 illegals entering the U.S annually. A significant percentage also die trying. In January a container ship docked in Seattle with 18 Chinese in the hold. Three were dead in the filth at the bottom of a container; the others were on the verge of starvation. Still, like Chen, they keep coming...
...after the terror had claimed the heads of his father and mother, Louis Charles--next in line for the French throne--finally earned his release from the Temple prison in Paris. He had suffered the dank filth, the coarse ministrations of a guardian cobbler and long periods of isolation before succumbing, at age 10, to tuberculosis. The prince was dead. Vive la Revolution...