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Frustration over Dole's inability to formulate themes has boiled over into the public. Not long after the conservative Weekly Standard predicted a Dole defeat, former Education Secretary William Bennett complained in a speech that "there's very little enthusiasm about Bob Dole." Conservative columnist Robert Novak accused Dole's campaign of "disorganization, lack of discipline and failure to articulate a coherent message." Things have got so bad that White House spokesman Mike McCurry passed up an opportunity to criticize Dole at a Friday press briefing. Said McCurry with mock concern: "All these Republicans are pounding...
...breakdown of the peace process (and there is enough truth in this to make us all stop and think); Sinn Fein blames the I.R.A. for ending the cease-fire. But must not Sinn Fein itself take much of the blame for the escalating violence and the consequent deaths? DANIEL BENNETT Tyrrellspass, Ireland...
Virtue may be its own reward, but cold, hard cash never hurts. Moralcrat Bill Bennett wandered into a Las Vegas casino after giving one of his standard America-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket speeches, when bingo, the Book of Virtues author hit the jackpot. A sheepish Bennett wouldn't say how much he won ($60,000, says a friend) or how long he played, but did want to explain: "I'm against state expansion of gambling, state advertising encouraging people to gamble, and gambling as a way to make a living. But adults on their own time...
...little interest to LeBow, a takeover artist who has set his sights on R.J.R. Nabisco. "He's in it to make money,'' says Richard Scruggs, one of whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand's lawyers, who is helping on the Mississippi Medicaid suit. "This is a very sophisticated business transaction by Bennett LeBow." If LeBow can force a merger between Liggett and R.J.R., then R.J.R. will participate in the settlement, moving out from under the shadow of incessant litigation, boosting its stock price and enabling LeBow to split the company's food and tobacco divisions. Even if this scheme fails, LeBow tells...
...stuck, then, for our morality gurus with Bill Bennett and Leviticus? Not necessarily. Carter could have advanced the cause of a secular morality if he'd bothered to give a little content to Step 1. Moral reflection, if it is to lead to moral results, has to consist of an exhaustive and empathetic assessment of the impact of one's actions on others, including even the despised and the outcast. If we define moral reflection this way, some good people might indeed be pro-choice and some might be pro-life, but none could be pro-genocide...