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...accurate and candid about himself as he is about everyone else, and over and over he owns up to occasions when his initial enthusiasm led him astray. An early version of Island Fling "really wasn 't good enough and was curiously overwritten," he decides. "I seem, in later years, to have lost my gift for economy. This has been, and in the future must continue to be, remedied." It is a rare writer who is his own best critic...
...them the old allure of glory, bravery, and unadulterated accomplishment He harks back to the days when people were more innocent--more easily deluded, the cynics will say--when there was no People Magazine to pry the lid off luminaries' private lives, thus preventing the public from being led astray by their admiration for less-than-saintly individuals. Romance may not be realistic--but it's nice...
...muffle the desperation that kindles crime. Job creation and real incentives for job training would rechannel the self-interest that makes men muggers. And a greater focus on rehabilitation--not on maintaining congested prisons whose squalor breeds frustration and recidivism--might leave some hope for those who originally go astray...
...that is where the documentary--and much current thinking about Vietnam--goes astray. The disastrous American intervention emerged not as an ill-advised adventure doomed from the start, but as a mammouth screw-up. It ended in failure not because America tried to suppress a civil war it could neither control nor understand, but because the military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just...
...Expos added an insurance run in the sixth, Valenzuela's last inning, when a throw from left-fielder Dusty Baker went astray, allowing Andre Dawson to score from third...