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...falsehood. Our political views are not created in a vacuum. Our personal beliefs are influenced by the values of our families and communities, our educations and our personal experiences. To pretend, as the thinking liberals do, that one's view have evolved entirely free of bias is to commit an act of dishonesty. To idealistically proclaim that we can, through the cult of rationality, break free of these biases is to exhibit the most extreme naivete...
...self-deprecating wit, Grant is the leading man of the moment. Four Weddings, a British romantic comedy, has become a surprise hit, earning more money per theater than any other current top-grossing movie. In the film, Grant plays Charles, a shy, befuddled single guy who is unable to commit to a woman. He falls for a beautiful American (MacDowell), and when he finally manages to reveal his true feelings to her, he does it by declaring, "In the words of David Cassidy -- when he was with the Partridge Family -- I think I love...
...believe that American society is in a period of transition that will ultimately lead it to embrace full and equal participation of homosexuals in the military," the statement said. "President Clinton's attempt to change military policy, while not wholly successful, has nonetheless accelerated this development. The trustees now commit Dartmouth College to helppush the transition forward...
...escapes over rooftops. One observer proposes the startling notion that a misty swirl of radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James at Harvard. His belief is that childhood experiences are more important than inherited tendencies in ordering behavior, and this psychological determinism, an offense to the ideal of free will...
...puckishly wrote in 1985 that killing a celebrity is "the only sure-fire route to overnight front-page fame." And he is a connoisseur of the judicially sensational, attending many a grotesque trial. Waters can sagely note the media's glamorizing and merchandising of felony -- "These days you can commit a crime, and two weeks later it's a TV movie" -- and in the next breath give a rave review to the Menendez circus. "A-list, A-list!" he rhapsodizes. "It's the only A-list trial in America for quite some time. Hey, it even launched a cable channel...