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...technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content to enhance their images of quiet competence. That void left Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Illinois Senator Paul Simon and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt in charge of providing charisma, a task akin to asking Comedian Jay Leno to dance Swan Lake...
...Oscar Chiang. Kriss served in South Korea while in the Army during the mid-1950s and later reported on China, then off limits to U.S. journalists, for United Press International from Tokyo. "I read Cheng's manuscript, and it knocked me out," says Kriss. "It is a powerful testament, akin to Arthur Koestler's tale of life under Soviet Communism, Darkness at Noon. It's an account of a brave woman's stubborn resistance to an overwhelmingly powerful regime." Kriss, who visited China last autumn, has watched with apprehension the government's recent attacks on intellectuals, students and those considered...
...Angeles County Superior Court suit that Hudson did not tell him he had AIDS. As a result, says Marvin Mitchelson, the nation's best-known palimony lawyer, his client Christian "lives in constant fear" of getting the disease. The case, declares Mitchelson, is really not so unusual. "It is akin to someone coming into your house and falling through a trapdoor...
Walzer's argument that all social criticism should be akin to the textual interpretation of a book both the critic and criticized party have read is not totally convincing. If Walzer's analogy were complete, for example, we would have to write or co-author as well as read all those books we criticize. Hermeneutics, to give Walzer's interpretive model its formal title, is a fascinating philosophical strategy with a massive history in European thought. But its application to political criticism needs more analysis and justification than has yet been generated...
...such a story, and Walker Percy scrupulously delivers all the promises his plot provides. But that is not all. For while More is trying to pull the plug on the doctored water, he must also ponder a vexing question. What is wrong, after all, with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better now than when he treated them for the normal run of human miseries? A mastermind of the sodium conspiracy taunts...