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...hope our memory starts to fail soon and we forget all this talk about splicing a fetus' DNA to produce smart little human babies. If the technique of genetic engineering were implemented on humans, it would be the first step into Huxley's Brave New World. TURHAN SARWAR, AGE 14 Kenner...
Aesop said, "its easy to be brave from a safe distance." He was right. For now we continue to debate ROTC on campus and pontificate about military policy. But there's a big world out there full of sacrificing men and women who could teach us a thing or two. Let's open our eyes and ears to them for a change. And let's bring ROTC back to campus with a bit of humility...
...dramatic phrase, "obsessed with ethics." Listening to Purdy describe his zeal for Kant and Hegel, it's easy to see why certain critics can't help poking fun at him. Why so serious? And considering the status of Purdy's heroes--from the great French essayist Montaigne to the brave Polish dissident Adam Michnik--the objects of his derision seem like straw men. Purdy singles out for special scorn management guru Tom Peters, who teaches disciples to think of themselves as commercial, brand-named products; the cyber- magazines Wired and Fast Company, which promote, in Purdy's view, greed...
...Undoubtedly these school-security measures are instituted out of fear. Concerns for our children's safety are well founded. In being driven by fears while forgetting to safeguard civil liberties, however, we may reach a time when the term "the land of the free and the home of the brave" no longer applies. TONY KALENAK Odessa, Texas...
...home. Only late in life did Rockwell's work begin to turn from ingrained nostalgia to a grittier reality, most notably in The Problem We All Live With, a 1964 painting of a young black girl on her way to school escorted by federal Marshals. His commonfolk, humorous and brave and spiritual to the core, became icons to generations. Yet a lifetime's work--nearly 4,000 smartly rendered pictures--never brought Rockwell acclaim in the inner circles of art that embraced everything from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art during his long career. Now a huge survey...