Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group in a meeting in Shanghai. And for those of us who had marveled at being able to use the Internet in cafes in Kashgar, he updated that old Chinese saying for the digital era his country is now embracing: "You can know everything from the Internet, but it cannot replace personal experiences with people." This was, indeed, the prime purpose of our Newstour. "It's hard to appreciate the changes in China," says Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, "unless you experience them intimately and emotionally as well as intellectually...
...swiftly show themselves: Should the largesse of public funding be allowed to circumscribe free speech? Can unhindered expression, in its turn, become sheer offense? And how ironclad are the constitutional protections for edgy art that may amount to hate speech? In the end, art can be political, but it cannot affect the world the way politicians can. Says Bill Ivey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts: "The damage can outlast the politics of the moment...
...cannot get arrested. It's "Oh, Mr. Belzer, you ran over that guy. Do you mind just backing up so we can move the body...
...parents should encourage frequent visits and not make the grandparents feel intrusive." And spending time together is essential, says Yaffa Schlesinger, who teaches sociology of the family at New York City's Hunter College. "If relationships are to be meaningful, they have to be deep in time. You cannot be friends with someone you met yesterday...
...whatever its flaws--and they will, for some, include its brutal, off-putting imagery--Fight Club can't be ignored. It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence...