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...reasonably deny that those of us who are HIV positive are obliged to act responsibly to prevent further transmission of the AIDS virus. Amitai Etzioni's view, however, is grossly wrongheaded ((Essay, Dec. 13)): for years the gay community has been taking concrete steps to educate people on how to prevent transmission of HIV. He utterly fails to address the irresponsibility of a society that neglects to educate its children adequately on AIDS ! prevention and relies on exhortations to abstinence rather than providing condoms, the most effective available means of prevention...
...transition points." Yet the rate of change has leveled off, and Norton thinks the U.S. is entering a period of relative stability. Other experts, noting such diverse signs as a rise in patriotism, improvement in aptitude-test scores and disenchantment with sexual promiscuity, tend to agree. Says Sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University: "People are tired of experimentation. This is the beginning of an age of reconstruction." --By David Beckwith. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington
...Brother is watching--and, according to Amitai Etzioni, author and former Harvard professor, that may not be such a bad thing...
...real question: Will choosing Marriage Plus reduce divorce, as its supporters hope? Virtuecrats, conservative Republicans who preach no-cost family values, communitarians like Amitai Etzioni, and some feminists who suspect they suffer more from breakups than men do--all believe it will...
...university admissions policies to the way civil rights laws are enforced. Even more important, it may ultimately transform the way Americans identify themselves and the tribe or tribes they belong to. In one grandiose vision , shared by conservative analyst Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute and communitarian sociologist Amitai Etzioni of American University, the ambiguous racial identity of mixed-race children may be "the best hope for the future of American race relations," as Besharov puts it. Letting people define themselves as multiracial, Etzioni argues, "has the potential to soften the racial lines that now divide America by rendering...