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Clearly the images of the Hindu gods in the club are divorced completely from any religious connotation--they are mere commodities meant to add to its exotic flavor. Nothing could more trivialize the faith of Hindus. It is significant to note, perhaps, that the majority owner of the Karma Club is himself a Hindu of Asian Indian origin. My comments are thus directed not only to popular performers like Madonna and Aerosmith, but also to anyone heedlessly seeking to profit off the sentiments of others...
...mystery to me what could have been so important to those students that they couldn't have waited five more minutes so as not to treat our esteemed guest as a mere professor. NEIL R. BROWN '01 Sept...
Excavations can pose tricky dilemmas. Who wouldn't want to hear a new Beatles song, and yet who would want to hear Free as a Bird more than once? Sometimes the appeal is more than mere novelty: a discarded thought can be more revealing, more intimate than a finished work; it's like catching an old friend off guard. A yen for uncooked art, for malleable art, is also more in keeping with our crude, relativistic times...
...Lewinsky's mind, at least, her words proved to be prophetic. A mere three weeks later, while trying to return a box of gifts and a goodbye letter to her boyfriend, she was stopped at the Northwest gate of the White House and overheard Secret Service officers say that the President was meeting Ms. Mondale in the Oval Office. What was more, the logs showed, she had been there for over an hour already. Lewinsky was "livid." The President's personal secretary had told her that Clinton was huddling with his lawyers this morning. In a jealous rage, Lewinsky called...
This onslaught of news is not mere coincidence. It is, in fact, a rarely understood law of nature--a kind of Harmonic Convergence. Every once in a great while, the emergence of an important news event generates so much energy that it actually produces more news, much as the appearance of a bus, after a lengthy wait, triggers the approach of four or five other buses immediately behind...