Friday, September 18, 1998
The flag versus the logo
The fizz and the froth, the magic and the moolah of all those cola and beer promos can be distracting -- and understandably so. But when it goes straight to the head, when corporate funding threatens to wipe out national pride, when the sponsor rather than the country calls the shots, when the sponsor's logo rather than the nation's flag raises emotions, then it's time to think again, boys.
Look who's talking
It is not as if the Congress has suddenly discovered a need to spruce up its image. The case for the exercise has, in fact, been reinforced a bit more with every addition to the party's long list of electoral reverses. The past responses of the party to this enforced recognition have, however, been different.
Triumph of the system
President Clinton's amoral dalliances, the crude details of which have been documented in Kenneth Starr's voluminous report to the US legislature, are shocking beyond belief. They show the base and vile degree to which a self-destructive chief executive can go to satiate himself. History is replete with instances of kings and rulers falling to the temptations of the flesh. Our own maharajas were no exception.
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