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Charles Krauthammer in his piece "Hiroshima, Mon Petit" [ESSAY, March 27] argues that we do a disservice to children when we introduce them tothe real world in books like this year's Caldecott Medal winner, Smoky Night, a picture book about the Los Angeles riots. We publishers, however, feel strongly that we would be doing children a disservice by pretending that the world is rosy and cozy. Youngsters of the '90s do not live in a tooth-fairy world. We feel that children are better prepared for life todya when books provide them the opportunity to question, to discuss...
...them is Mark Henrie, Lowell House resident tutor in political philosophy. When asked about him, Dan E. Markel '95 enthusiastically says that Henrie's "presence hovers in every essay I write, even when not concerned with political philosophy." For him, "Tutorial under Mark represents the pinnacle of a liberal education...
...Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today issued a highly unusual essay asking judges across the country to study whether executing prisoners who have spent long periods on death row violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Stevens made the request in a two-page supplement to the court's unanimous rejection of Texas killer Clarence Allen Lackey's death penalty appeal. Lackey's attorney argued that executing him after 17 years on death row amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve...
Probing deeper into the problems of modern masculinity, Leyner's essay "Hulk Couture" is sure to become a manifesto for all non-jocks living in Mather-a perfect expression of their sartorial feelings toward the body-building lifestyle. In this piece, Leyner assumes the persona of a "buff buff" who advocates losing the spotter when one pumps iron because, "When there's nothing to keep a barbell stacked with 375 lbs. of iron plates from collapsing onto your throat but your own two arms...well, if that doesn't get the ol' fight-or-flight response going, then nothing will...
Leyner's paranoid rhapsodies continue in "Great Prentenders," an essay on the dominance of a thespian conspiracy in modern society--the idea that your neighbors, for example, are not really neighbors, but actors hired by realestate salesmen to convey the image of an ideal neighborhood. Leyner calls this the "De Niro-ization' of culture...Migratory shifts back and forth from the real to the simulacrum [that] will calibrate the rest of history." "The Mary Poppins Kidnapping" pokes fun at the over-sensitive parents who worry that all forms of media, even the innocuous products of Disney, are dangerous influences...