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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...paradigm of the age of escapist politics. No painful economic choices need be confronted. Considerations more complex than a sound bite can be dismissed. And it lends itself to the manipulation of what are in fact the deep and sincere values of a patriotic majority understandably repulsed by the sight of Old Glory being burned...
Many adults like McDonald's for its convenience, but children have a special devotion. The sight of the Golden Arches seems to send kids' blood racing. Lately, though, some disillusioned youngsters have been insisting on eating elsewhere. A few have even been picketing McDonald's stores. To urge a boycott of the company's outlets, Kurtiz Schneid, a New Jersey high school student, demonstrated in front of the United Nations dressed as "Ronald McToxic." His message: "The planet deserves a break today...
...recognition for his once obscure namesake. But after 35 commercials, his extravagant claims for Isuzu cars and trucks are coming to an end. The automaker said last week that next fall's campaign for three new lines of vehicles will rely on humor, but Joe will be nowhere in sight. The reason may be that Joe is losing his edge, which some ad experts attribute to his becoming too sincere in recent ads. But Isuzu's ad agency hints that Joe may be only resting. After a brief hiatus, he intends to run for President. (There he goes again...
History suggests that there is nothing new about child warriors, partly because in centuries past youngsters were looked upon as small adults, and thus the sight of them in combat was less horrifying. But there is a difference between being trained to fight and being used to make a symbolic point. In the Children's Crusade of the 13th century, the thousands of boys and girls who were dispatched from Europe to the Holy Land went off unarmed and undefended; their very youth was meant to awe the enemy. Most died of disease or starvation along the way; many...
...these places, the shock of seeing children fighting fades. It's like entering a darkened room: rather quickly the eyes adjust to a dimmer light. The mind grows accustomed to the sight of a little boy among the men, wearing the same uniform, carrying the same weapon, walking with the same tired swagger. It is from a distance that the reality of child soldiers appalls. Even people living close to the fighting find it easier to forget. Hamed Karzai, the urbane spokesman of the Afghan rebel government, spends most of his time mediating between rival mujahedin factions. Sipping...