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While it is fine to wax nostalgic about three remaining great old ball yards [SPORT, May 13], including my beloved Fenway Park, and bemoan their inevitable loss, critics should talk with the fans who actually populate those stadiums on game days. As beautiful and charming as Fenway is, its seats are cramped, concessions inadequate and rest rooms too few. The entire place is antiquated. The tradition of the Boston Celtics, along with the team's parquet floor, made the trip from the old Boston Garden--now there is a dump--to the new Fleet Center quite nicely. Fenway's Green...
...course, there are detractors: groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which protests that uniforms are unconstitutional; parents who bemoan the supposed high costs of uniforms; and children who protest that they will lose their "individuality" and "personality" if forced to wear plaid...
...would defund it. He and his party are insisting on $245 billion in tax cuts as a centerpiece of their effort. But is this great tax reduction flowing back into the pockets of all Americans? No. The tax reductions were, in part, a sop to the G.O.P. moralists who bemoan the dissolution of the family. The "family" tax cuts were aimed at people raising children, but not at all people raising children. The credits are worthless to the families in which a third of American children live, because those families don't earn enough to pay income tax. Those families...
This devotion to material possessions, accompanied by a relative neglect of any higher values, is now a part of American culture. In looking at the state of contemporary America, many commentators rightly bemoan our society's crass materialism, expressing shock at this sorry state of affairs. We should all be disturbed by the moral decay of our nation...
...help it if he comes across as the reincarnation of the perfect 1950s TV dad--good-looking and good-humored, Father Knows Best for the 1990s. (In Indiana he is strongly supported by women 18 to 35.) At a time in the national political debate when all sides bemoan lack of civility, Lugar is civility itself. "I propose a new Republican commandment," he frequently asserts. "Thou shalt not speak ill of other Americans." And while he is philosophically conservative (he voted with Ronald Reagan more than any other Senator), Lugar, in his quiet way, offers some of the boldest proposals...