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...wading through certain Don DeLillo novels or trying to make sense of the plotlines for Melrose Place, is not an easy undertaking. Step onto the mazelike cosmetics floor of almost any department store and you are likely to be assaulted by salesclerks--some spritz-happy, some too eager to confront you about your shiny forehead. Chances are the beauty product you're looking for is under glass, off limits to mere customers. According to at least one market-research survey on the way cosmetics are presented and pitched in stores, the entire process "inhibits friendliness...
...parents, even harder than the abstract social questions are the very personal ones they confront when they see or hear that their child is struggling. Will Ritalin help? Will it change her personality? Is it fair for me to make this choice for him? Does it send the signal that she is not responsible for her behavior? Is the teacher suggesting it just to make her own day easier? Will he have to take it forever? What if all children would be a little happier, perform a little better if they took their pills like vitamins every morning...
Habibie seems unprepared to confront the chaos. In a halting speech in the Assembly, he regretted the deaths of student "victims of the reform process." He later ordered the military to take "firm" action against the protesters. Even if he survives till next year's elections, the ruling party will probably drop him as its presidential candidate, if he doesn't resign first...
...allegory deepens, as the conservative forces of Pleasantville, led by the town mayor (the late J.T. Walsh, in his last role), attempt to check the changes as they would an infectious disease. Not surprisingly, it falls to David to resolve what his sister started, and in so doing, confront the huge question mark he spends most of the movie evading: what should he stand up for, change or continuity...
...address the following to those who seek to improve the world. (How maddeningly absurd it is to imagine that I might have lost even one reader just now!) Today I want to express an impassioned plea for each of us to ask ourselves the following questions and to confront our answers earnestly: What would it take for me to unearth, scrutinize and grapple with my deepest motives in life? To reconsider those motives with the most sincere and penetrating will to critique and better myself? To emerge from this introspection with a more enlightened sense of what drives...