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Journalist:
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He's been I^KFTXTTF
dedicated to his caI
reer longer than Walter Cr,
* most of our parents
have been
alive.
He lived HaMMkaaJUy
through, analyzed has effl
and brought the , ,
American public's V Crossed th
attention to events gap by SUpor
we have only read "youthful" C
about in history
books.
While jour
nalists and paparazzi have "a?
come under fire and lost their pres- s?ei
tige, Walter Cronkite, "Old Iron- ^hy
pants," has. somehow managed to ?iei
win the trust and respect not
only of his colleagues, but also of cho
the public, perhaps the harshest "ov
critics of journalism. tov
Though now retired, Cronkite
is not sitting back and relaxing.
Hardly. exF
0 Cronkite has used his recognition
and prestige to bring at- jegs
tention to various causes, most
recently breast cancer.
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It's a com- BB
mercialized world,
and holidays are Rosh HaSt
no exception.
Look around __________
Wal-Mart?Halloween
goodies f
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the end of July, Jewish New
while Easter stuff i
is sold in February.
Needless to commercia
say, Christmas
is mai K.eLeu year- |
long. It's disgusting
to know you can actually buy 111111
a singing Santa Claus figurine
in Sam's Club on any given sum- of 1:
merday. wa
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manufacturers and candy com- 10r
panies want to sell their seasonal
products the sooner the better, day
which explains the premature and
celebration and overexposure of ida;
most holidays in the Western wr?
world.
Well, for those who are won- gre
dering if there are any non-com- yui
mercialized holidays left to eel- mi(
ebrate, rest assured there are. wh,
0 Take Rosh Hashanah for examP*e
one
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and gender seem .
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ting for him to
raise awareness
ause for veterans or so
cial security.
But Cronkite
i effectively cut across such
reotypes and embraced a worr
cause. He has proved the
aning of individualism. That
isn't mean making the "PC"
ice all the time and bowing
m to MTV. It means sticking I i
vhat you believe in.
Though it's often hard for us,
youth, to relate to tales and
?eriences our grandparents
it through, Cronkite has shown
can learn and admire their I
ions, yet still be our own selves. (
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. I always made fun of the girls untrained
Irew horses in their notebooks in "they're i
jntary school and the ones who and ferre
1 about "Save The "in high
1.1 am not a big outdoors enthu- . . u
or animal lover. Then I met a g^y yan
r" fore I too
Vhile I am a big fan of support- out conv(
jlunteer organizations, I always ment. Lo<
the standpoint of helping what around ii
ilosest to me. People, to be spe- in perspe
My attitude on this exclusivity is ^
ng to change, thanks to the Zoos ,
liodiversity class Fm taking. It's
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don't even like TV. However, last
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was baby sitting my eight-year- eration oi
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j with virtually identical premis- there wil
2 were subjected to "Teen Angel," At fi
ich the title character uses su- so bad. S
itural powers to help his best Donaldizi
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kids today are having trouble sidering \
g power issues. While this might bucks str
important point to explore, a ation doe
pressing issue is at hand ? the gesi
cratization of cappuccino. abuses, (1
lie premier episode of "Teen An- ers on fa
dlled off the kid with a bad ham- with coff(
sr. After the unconvincing death 33 cents i
, the boy ascended to heaven in bucks isr
vator. Hie elevator operator iden- existing1
the floors for the new arrival, stead, th
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s to the Duke Primate Cen- why should I he
eight-hour round trip to look sity van when 11
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al, lemurs are an endangered a paper?
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1 their cages kind of put it all
ctive. We?as hur
, all of the extincti
urs are not as striking as oth- ,
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fered speaes who receive press , ? ,,
to save them. Lemurs, as far fbo >11 other,
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lid this primate center con- nature." I love a
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'irst floor, seraphim. Second restaurants, so t
ubim. Third floor, Starbucks." tomers who are i
rbucks?" questioned the new location. TheyYi
Worldwide Web
ey're everywhere," she small-time coffe
been told by th(
ifraid we earthlings don't have out because Strn
y of shrugging off the prolif- former retail mi
FStarbucks. According to the told U.S. News
isue of U.S. News and World "Th?y are intent
ere were fewer than 200 Star- and dominating
tlets in 1992. It's estimated ally want a spat
I be 2,000 by the year 2000. anything they c;
rst glance, this doesn't seem Imagine wl
ure, we may think this Mc- those generic si
ation of coffee is tacky, but it cal venues. Co\
;ally affect us, does it? Con- would be strippe
vhat I've learned about Star- ana's would no 1<
ategies, I'm afraid this situ- Cafe Expresso v
s affect coffee lovers. y0nd recognitioi
des hints of human rights Anfj hprp w
the uentral American workrms
that supply Starbucks Harriot ^or!
je beans are only paid about Pacify ?ur nei
an hour), it seems that Star- see Starbucks i
1't terribly interested in co- Place as a scoul
with local coffee houses. In- waters of the Cj
ey try to take over existing see if we will su
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lat could have made that man tick?"
viewed but wished he could have.
ther spec
this animal alone and that we're privileged t<
ive to sit in a univer- examining my attitude
could be working on a other than my own, I
application or writing too, often subscribe to
puts economic survival t
r lies in knowledge, of value of life as import
e know and the infin- exists,
i is to discover. There Statistics estimate
?n earth that we know of living species may b
at we can sit back and the next 25 years. Extu
stion. Even if an ani- isolated event. These s
wide a "service" to us er they were created an
itical wonder, it's ig- pose, are intertwined v
e that its life is not im- tat. Their habitats
environment. We mei
nans, are not causing wh?fe> though we act {
inna npmirriria hut nur Tt'a nn hn u.a aa inr
i deciding that we're ucate ourselves as to h
species is a large con- nected to the "other." Th
jumping on a bandwag
ing let's turn back the the time to just learn e
s, tear down our tech- the environment <
d huts to get "back to tions of our decisions ?
II of the conveniences The lemurs will tl
s, kill Starbu<
hey can have the cus- Let's not support S
ased to coming to that not tell them it's OK t(
3 aggressive, too. The lumbia, like they have
has lists of sites about places. U.S. News ai
e purveyors who have ports says communitie
iir landlords to move cisco, Brooklyn and Por
"bucks is moving in. A either stage protest
anager for Starbucks ^S^t to keep Starbuck
i and World Report, doesn t come to that h<
on entering a market We have enough
it quickly. If they re- America with chains :
:e, they're going to do neighborhood look ali]
an to get it." family restaurants to
iat it would be like if we '?se a sense of cor
.ops took over our lo- ?"?lem lsvmore Pro"m
irtyard Coffeehouse feehouses'because
d of personality. AdriDnger
serve ice cream. 1
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muld be samtized be- jatteg
In a community t
re are at USC, thank- considering putting a ]
riving us a Starbucks n*?ruoic or*
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ed for some variety. I amounts of time and n
n the Grand Market the area attractive, we
t of sorts, testing the let this issue go unnotic
irolina community to "Teen Angel" of TGIF, f<
pport them. to our attention.
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toward species
realize that I,
a system that
above the sheer
ant because it
that one-fourth
ie destroyed in
action is not an
.pedes, howev-w
d for what purnth
their habimake
up the
ely share this
as if we own it.
lividuals to edow
we are con
is doesn t mean
jon, but taking
ibout the scope
and ramificaifFecting
it.
lank you.
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tarbucks. Let's
) take over Coso
many other
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in San FranflanH
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s or otherwise
s out. I hope it
jre.
i problems in
making every
Ice. As we lose
Burger Kings,
nmunity. The
inced with cofr
are the places
i go to express
themselves in
rer mochas and
hat's actually
McDonald's on
inrlincr nKcrono
aoney to make
can't afford to
ed. Thank you,
Dr bringing this
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