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...that protected minorities from the possibility of a tyranny of the majority. Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "They recognized for the first time ever--and pretty much for the last time--that individual liberty, equal rights, etc., are not assured by democracy. The flaw in a democratic system is: What about the minority, whether religious, political, sexual or whatever--members of a class who would never win an election? The Bill of Rights says what the Government cannot do. It is a set of negative limits...
...cameras and satellites have enabled television to provide immediate hookups around the world. Broadcast journalism's collective impact on the civil rights movement, Viet Nam and Watergate more than matched Murrow's exposure of the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Moreover, Murrow's work for CBS was not without flaw. His intonations and gestures were often stagy, his language orotund, his judgments pious. He squandered a lot of time on cozy, sometimes rehearsed celebrity interviews for Person to Person. Far more than any of his heirs, he let his personality and politics become a part of the story, particularly during...
...ONLY OTHER FLAW left to pick on is the decidely dodgy quality of Cyrano's nose. This may be splitting nose hairs, as it were, but Cyrano's shnozz is so prominent, both visually and symbolically, that its obvious artificiality detracts mightily from the atmosphere of the play. Not only was the seam obvious from my fourth row seat, but it made Roe sound like an extra in a Dristan commercial. During one of the more tedious sections, I started to hope that the nose would fall off and add some needed comic relief, but it never did--another disappointment...
...beginning of an effective counter-terrorism policy must be education," McFarlane said, calling for a government-initiated public discussion on the nature of terrorism. "Ninetypercent or more of terrorists are not people whoaspire to freedom, nor victims of some socialinjustice, nor reacting to some flaw in U.S.policy, they are murderers," he said at a pressconference before the speech...
ANOTHER WIDESPREAD CHARACTER flaw here is insincerity, and this necessitates the formation of the Phony Table. Participants in the Phony Table would sit around fawning on each other and saying things like "Hey, this eggplant parmesan is terrific, or "Isn't it nice we could all get together here tonight?" until someone gets up for seconds, at which point all the other members will make fun of him behind his back...