NBC liquor ads spark debate on advertising and public welfare
Critics argue NBC would push hard liquor to a broad audience by exploiting alcoholics and potential drinkers as a lucrative market. They urge a ban on liquor ads, citing social costs and youth influence, while proponents cite advertising environment and revenue needs.
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NBC
Joseph Califano Jr
National Center On Addiction and Substance Abuse
Columbia University
Kimberly
Shaving Cream Bandit and Other Odd Crime Tales
A Vernon Conn mini market robbery attempt ends when the disguise of shaving cream fails to hide the culprit. A Jackson Miss thief robs three sites after filling out a credit form, exposing him. Oklahoma City reports an ax robber thwarted by a cashier sticker. A bicycle riding bear near Merrill, Wisconsin, adds a humorous birdfeeder warning.
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Metropolis
Superman
Clark Kent
Vernon
Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Bill Goggin
Oklahoma City
Okla
Tomahawk
Wis
Sylvia Linton
Merrill
Bin Laden and the poetry of despots in modern history
Lenore Skenazy argues that many tyrants claim to be poets, citing Osama bin Laden and others from Mao to Nixon. She notes experts who discuss why people write poetry and why great verse demands discipline, concluding that power figures rarely achieve lasting poetic stature.
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Lenore Skenazye
Osama bin Laden
Osama
Leonard Nimoy
Henry VII
George Patton
Mao Tse-tung
Radovan Karadzic
Patton
Mao
Richard Nixon
Tricky Dick
Alice Quinn
The
New Yorker
Deborah Garrison
New York
Force a Solution in Middle East War Debate
The essay argues that there is no military solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict and calls for a forced U.S. peace through leverage on Israel, settlement removals, and international action. It notes escalations, critiques Sharon, and warns against overreach in pursuing anti terror alliances while seeking a durable ceasefire.
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Hendrik Hertzberg
New Yorker
Hamas
Islamic Jihad
Robert Friedman
West Bank
Hebron University
Israel
Menachem Begin
Middle East
George Mitchell
Ariel Sharon
Sharon
Temple Mount
Arafat
United States
al-Qaida
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Jim Webb
Wal-Mart
Dave Barry
Sll & Gas
bin Laden
Jack Margolis
Winnetka
Yale
Harold Bloom
Leonard Cassuto
Fordham University
Walt Whitman
Cassuto
Whitman
Lenore Skenazy
New York Daily News
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Tribune Information Services
India
Lewis Lapham
Harper’s
101St Airborne Division
Bush
Clinton
Molly Ivins
Yasser Arafat
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