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Kinsley tries to tie together the fortunes of liberalism and libertarianism. That is a fatal flaw in his argument. Liberalism views marijuana use and gay rights as morally equivalent, while libertarian thought does not attach any morality to either of them. JON ACKER Tuscaloosa, Alabama...
...producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible for being anxious than is the hemophiliac for his medical condition. The fault is not mine; it's in the genes. Not a character flaw but a genetic predisposition. What a blessed, redemptive relief! But now I am worried. How can they be sure? JUDITH M. FITTGE New Orleans
...fear and wariness was a good idea. Rather than being the norm, then, the people who are always cheery and who see the bright side and who say things like "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole" are in fact carrying a maladaptive genetic flaw. So why haven't they died...
...while Cutler seems to feel this Washington culture could represent a flaw in our system, others seemed to disagree...
...production's tragic flaw, then, consists of a desire to package the play's ambiguities up neatly. After all these fine performances, the interpretation put at the end upon Goldberg and McCann's departure with Stanley comes across as heavy-handed, and far less interesting than the strange world the characters have been inhabiting for the last hour or so. And the ending to each act--placing one character in the corner of the exaggerated perspective created by a slanting set--already pushes patience...