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...That’s all well and good, but why didn’t the Sox “sit down and discuss it” before making the original decision to cancel the game? If media scrutiny wasn’t a factor, why did Boston deem its field fit for play only after Walsh expressed dissatisfaction and the Boston papers were ready to make noise...
...more chameleon art is, the more future it has because we change,” Koons says. In order for his art to survive, it has to be able to appeal to a large and evolving audience. Following this logic, if 10 years from now viewers deem over-sized balloon dogs or inflatable flowers passé, then Koons’ work will be essentially discarded. To protect his work from becoming dated, he tries to make every piece as objective as possible. He claims, somewhat counterintuitively, that he achieves this by first accepting himself, then accepting others...
...same time, we need to introduce new laws to stop teenage crime. We need to be very tough on guns, drugs and alcohol. Parents and teachers should be given more of a role in building children's character. They should be allowed to take the actions they deem necessary for kids' benefit. Hasan Raza Gondal, Birmingham, England...
...Such a compromise might seem reasonable for all sides. But really only a skeptic, or one not fully committed to the truth of his convictions, could deem such an arrangement a positive good. Christians, used to the dominant secularism of this age, have conceded it, if not as a principle, then at least a dictate of prudence...
...order to market themselves to voters. Apparently, voters respond well to “tough” judges, which sheds some light on Texas’s 26 criminal executions this past year. (No other state executed more than three people, leading The New York Times to deem Texas “The State Without Pity...