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Rebgay said that the decision to screen the pre-submitted questions is at best a "bad deal...
Many claim that the death penalty helps the loved ones of homicide victims deal with their loss; yet, much as we want to alleviate their pain, we must not kill out of grief. Dorchester's Joseph Chery, a man who knows as much about the pain of murder as anyone after his young son was killed, has become an outspoken opponent of the death penalty. "As human beings, your very first impulse dictates revenge," Chery told the Boston Globe this past weekend. "But as reasonable beings, it becomes a question of repressing that first instinct, using your values, using your...
Wright does a fine job of explaining the opening chapters of my new book, Should You Leave?, especially the sections that deal with the solutions to marital discord proposed by the mid-century psychiatrist Murray Bowen. Bowen favored an "autonomous" posture with the qualities Wright mentions: cerebral detachment, an American "inner directedness." What Wright does not say is that I spend the rest of the book questioning the ideal of autonomy. For most people, a desirable relationship contains passion, mutuality, obligation, unselfconsciousness--the opposite of detachment. Autonomy--independence--is our premier national value, but it can make for strange bedfellows...
...success of the little jets at commuter airlines has forced the powerful pilots' unions at the big carriers to throttle back their opposition to them. American Airlines has finally ordered jets from Bombardier and Embraer, after making a deal with its 9,000 pilots on who would fly them, a contentious point in the negotiations that narrowly averted a strike by the pilots' union earlier this year. American and the pilots have agreed on the acquisition of 67 regional jets, capped at 70 seats, to be flown by American Eagle pilots, who typically earn $35,000 a year--a third...
...which is leading the Clinton administration to make enthusiastic noises about an early visit to China as soon as 1998. Of course there?s still that $44 billion trade surplus, the status of Taiwan and Richard Gere to deal with. But substantive issues aside, thus far in what TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer calls "the biggest challenge facing the U.S. for the foreseeable future," everything's coming up roses...