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...actresses could have made some emotional sense out of May, or at least sent her smoldering in mystery. Stanton, with his haunted, pinched face and chirruping alibis, steals the show--or, rather, is awarded it by default. And Randy Quaid, as a gentleman caller, is a perfect audience surrogate: decent, dogged, perplexed by a family squabble that admits no strangers to its terrible embrace. The door clangs shut, and we are outside. --By Richard Corliss
...having his own restaurant and actress. By untold measure, he is the most embarrassing quarterback ever to succeed in the National Football League. From the moment he rerhymed his name at Notre Dame to chime with the Heisman trophy, he has provoked more winces than any other basically decent fellow in sports, and without once wincing himself...
...singling out innocent victims at the Rome and Vienna airports [WORLD, Dec. 30], terrorists have once again shown themselves to be lacking decent values and conscience. There is no rationale or political ideology, including reprisals for past wrongs, that can justify such an atrocity. This latest act should brand these terrorists and their cause, as well as those who support them, with shame, dishonor and world condemnation. Bart Gethmann Wheaton...
...tragedy of history is not the perpetual hopeless clash between saintly individuals and diabolical establishments, but rather the perpetual clash between the relatively decent societies and the bloody ones. To be more precise: the perpetual cowardice of relatively decent societies whenever they confront the ruthlessness of the oppressive ones...
...where sweatshops are alive and well, the company insists those measures make a difference. Suppliers, including those who sell to Wal-Mart indirectly through other companies, must limit the work week to 40 hours plus no more than three hours of overtime a day, meet safety requirements and provide decent accommodations for workers. Even those critical of Wal-Mart concede that the standards can make conditions at a Wal-Mart supplier's factory more bearable than they are at a lot of other low-wage factories in China. "When the standards are enforced," says Domenzain, "I think they...