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...managed to take some of the usual flash and venal smirk off the evening. Maybe everyone was worried sober by the market. The proceedings and most of the clothes were even unexpectedly dignified. The cameramen, who must have worked for Ed Sullivan in the days of Elvis, were forbidden to show Jennifer Lopez below the collarbone. Stephen Soderbergh, Best Director (for "Traffic") gave a feeling and self-effacing speech about creativity ("the world would be intolerable without art"). Bob Dylan materialized from Australia, geezer indeed, with a fascinatingly cunning, wolfish look in his pale gray eye, like Vincent Price when...
...right for homosexuality to exist. Rather, perhaps we should be asking whether it is moral that anyone can be fired in 40 states because of his or her sexual orientation; that I can be kicked out of housing in 42 states; that homosexual sex by either gender is forbidden in 5 states; and that non-vaginal intercourse is illegal for all persons in 13 states (including this one). If these are the sorts of moral issues Sachs wishes to debate, bring...
Conservative arguments against homosexuality usually take one of two related forms: either homosexuality goes against natural law, or it is forbidden by religious dictates. I am skeptical of anyone who argues that nature has a law concerning morality and, moreover, that he or she knows the content of that law. The religious arguments all boil down to one statement: it's wrong because my god told me so. Aside from the fact that all statements which purport to come from the divine have to pass through human editors, there is no compelling evidence whether or not a divine being exists...
...happy and partake, except of the forbidden fruit, has always been a hard message to swallow," writes David Courtwright in Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, in an attempt to summarize a potentially fatal flaw of human nature. Courtwright examines every historical detail of the development of drugs: their discovery, whether accidental or man-made, and their evolution and use in society. He cleverly toys with our present-day notion of the term "drug," examining a range of products that includes the illegal substances such as cocaine, marijuana, opium, as well as certain legalized substances...
...what he wants. The federal government announced plans this autumn to decriminalize personal possession and consumption of cannabis. Sometime this spring it will unveil proposals to regulate shops and growers, a move that could involve Dutch-style tolerance, subject to a few conditions: sales restricted to certain outlets and forbidden to minors or foreigners. After parliamentary debate, a new law could take effect in 2002. "We certainly don't want to become a country which exports cannabis," says Zeltner, "and the Swiss government will not take the step of legalizing the substance." But well-dressed men are already rolling joints...