Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.forbes From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Other Comments Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:08:08 EST Message-ID: "Copyright 1992 Forbes, Inc. Any further reproduction or redistribution without the express written permission of Forbes and ACC is prohibited." Other Comments We Can Do It EACH DAY we are reminded that mil- lions of our citizens have yet to share in the abundance of American pros- perity. Let us pledge ourselves to a new beginning for them. Let us apply our ingenuity and spirit to revolu- tionize education so that [all of] us will have the mental tools to build a better life. Let us harness our com- petitive energy into rebuilding our inner cities so that real jobs can be created for those who live there and real hope can rise out of despair. Let us renew our commitment, re- new our pledge to make our country and the world a better place to live. Then when the nations of the world turn to us and say, ''America, you are the model of freedom and prosperi- ty,'' we can turn to them and say, ''You ain't seen nothing, yet!'' -RONALD REAGAN, 1992 Republican Convention Whistle While You Worry ROY [DISNEY] called Walt into his office with a worried look on his face. He explained that the studio was teetering on the brink. It had 1,500 people on the payroll. Snow White profits were long gone. The studio had $4.5 mil- lion of debt, with no way to pay it. Walt started to laugh. ''What are you laughing at?'' ''I was just thinking back,'' Walt said, "to when we couldn't borrow a thousand dollars.'' -The Man Behind the Magic, KATHERINE and RICHARD GREENE Their Time Has Come INCUMBENTS have made themselves unbeatable by abusing the assets of their office, hiring an army of reelec- tion campaigners at taxpayer expense, extorting funds to brainwash the elec- torate with campaign commercials, and creating what antitrust lawyers call barriers to entry in the form of procedural hurdles that intimidate all but the most durable opponents. -Cleaning House, by JAMES COYNE and JOHN FUND Food for Thought TELEVISION'S tirelessly smiling news readers struck again. Milk could kill you, they announced. A few days later: So can margarine. Years of exposure to the country's daily news budget has left me resigned to the certainty of death by eating. But the week's third bulletin brought me close to tears. Scientific people of some sort were looking into the possibility that car- peting could kill you. They weren't talking about rugs' deadly habit of skidding on floors, but about some- thing in the carpet's manufacture. It looks easy enough to avoid this particular demise: Just take all the carpets out of the house. [But] as soon as the rugs got to the dump, some- body would discover that exposure to bare wood flooring could kill you. What's so depressing about the possibility of dying of carpeting is that it makes you realize you can't save yourself even though you stop eating and drinking. If food and drink don't get you, things will. -RUSSELL BAKER, New York Times ******************************************* I don't consider myself a journalist, but journalism results from what I do. -talk show host LARRY KING, Time ******************************************* Word Power IN AN AGE of sound-bites and manu- factured images, we still appreciate the real thing, the stem-winder. We're a people that likes to orate, and to be orated at. Perhaps more than most countries, this one was founded on speechifying, or on the feelings that lofty phrasemaking can sometimes inspire; and in hard times our leaders--Jefferson, Lincoln, F.D.R.--have always found the words to help us through. Yes, they were only words--but words, after all, are how we connect to one another. -The New Yorker Burning Inspiration HERE'S WHAT Harriet Beecher Stowe had to say about the iron cookstove of the 19th century (that we consider so romantic) replacing fireplace cooking: ''An open fireplace is an altar of patriotism. Would our Revo- lutionary fathers have gone barefoot- ed and bleeding over snows to de- fend air-tight stoves and cooking ranges? I trow not. It was the memo- ry of the great open kitchen-fire that called to them through the snows of that dreadful winter.'' One wonders whether the micro- wave oven will inspire future genera- tions to high sacrifice. -The Virginia Bentley Cookbook  "This information is the property of Forbes, Inc., ACC takes no responsibility for its content, or the actions of any individual or institution, predicated on the information herin. Forbes Subscriptions are available to students and faculty members at the student/educator rate of $33 for one year, 27 issues. Regularly priced $52. Information about print subscriptions may be had by calling 1-800-888-9896. For further information about the electronic version of Forbes, contact usa@AmeriCast.COM"