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Public pressure has prompted Houston police to develop one of the nation's largest antiporn squads, with eleven officers, and has given Houston courts the dubious honor of apparently leading the U.S. in the number of porn cases tried (200) and the percentage of defendants convicted (91%). Sergeant William Brown, head of the city's vice squad, calls the antiporn crusade his city's "No. 1 priority." Says Brown: "Twenty years ago, all we saw was black-and-white movies. Now we're seeing live sex onstage. What's next? Sex with children...
Honor thy father and thy mother is a sound precept in life, but dubious advice for a writer. From James Joyce to Tennessee Williams, from Virginia Woolf to Mary Gordon, modern literature has thrived on an undercurrent of patricide and matricide. Monstrous parents, it seems, are what gifted children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics...
...successive outing. When the debut was published, he was heralded in the press as a “certified wunderkind” and an “obvious talent,” while the book itself was uniformly dubbed “impressive”—a dubious honor which implies, like it or not, a measure of condescension even if it is an expression of approval...
...only is this action constitutionally dubious in its effective usurpation of states’ rights, but it sets a dangerous precedent of prolonging specific legal disputes outside of their proper arena. Politicization of court cases is inevitable to some degree, but the intrusion of legislative politics is nothing short of debilitating to the very independence of the judicial branch of government. In Sunday’s House of Representatives floor debate Rep. James D. Moran Jr., D-Va., wisely observed with regard to the Schiavo struggle, “I don’t know who’s right...
...March 18 column “The Question of Leadership,” Stephen W. Stromberg once again pokes at the “dubious educational value” of requiring an “international experience.” Perhaps there are valid non-educational values of such a requirement. I wonder whether the U.S.’s position in the world might be different today if Yale had imposed such a requirement on its class...