Word: detachedness
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FATHERS SHOULD BE NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD," wrote Oscar Wilde. "This is the only proper basis for family life." It's hard to say what Wilde would have thought of this week's cover photo or the pictures inside of dads and their children. Several clearly defy the outdated idea...
There have been risky times and breathtaking losses along the way. Although Soros predicted the 1987 stock-market crash, he lost $800 million by mistiming his withdrawal from the market. That hit, which wiped out close to a third of Quantum's book value at the time, persuaded Soros, who...
The "family values" slogan Republicans used at their last convention does not really advance the cause of family. Speakers such as Patrick Buchanan, who has allegedly made anti-gay and anti-Semitic comments, and Pat Robertson,, who carries the flag of the religious right, deflected the real issues. "Family values...
These three monologues are delivered in three identically antiseptic hotel rooms served by three identically silent dark-skinned waiters -- symbolizing the West's detached distance from the underprivileged terrain regarded as a "market." With these speeches Jon Robin Baitz, 31, vaults into the top rank of U.S. dramatists. He first...
Somehow your journalists forgot the basic fact that they are free to write what they want. Journalists should want to write about real conditions, not some hunky-dory model of how things ought to be. Ironically, each of the articles appeared at the bottom of a front page jam-packed...