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...item "Who Says There's No Difference Among the Candidates?" [CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK, Oct. 7], giving sketchy coverage to other parties' candidates for President. You included certain platform information without any development because you thought it would be entertaining. That is a technique a politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke out of those candidates who can make this...
...gluttony--we are in some Darwinian sense "misusing" our equipment of reciprocal altruism; the equipment is being "fooled" by electronic technology into (unconsciously) thinking that the victims of famine are right next door and might someday reciprocate. But that doesn't diminish the act. Our capacity to thus distort biological purpose, to prevail over our selfish heritage, is a deep source of hope and a glimmer of true goodness...
...young adults (vs. 35% of Americans 45 to 59 years old) say they are following news about the presidential campaign "very closely," a poll by the Media Studies Center found. Moreover, their antipathy to news extends beyond politics, because most stories, written or broadcast, either shut out or distort young Americans' lives. Newspaper portrayals of 18-to-23-year-olds were tracked by a team of college students supervised by Nancy Woodhull, the center's executive director, and they found that this age group shows up most in sports news, followed by crime. Though greatly affected by changes...
...their article appearing on April 29 titled "Israel's Campaign of Terror," authors Ahmed T. El-Gaili, Ramy M. Tadros and Rami A. Thabet badly misrepresent the situation in Southern Lebanon. Their editorial contains several factual as well as analytical errors which distort the nature of the recent conflict...
...comes down to a question of priorities, and being around so many overachievers can distort priorities. But once out in the real world, when the memory of Harvard fades and the pressures of life intrude, what becomes important is the quality of life you have--and not the number of listings on your resume...