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Americans are reared with a commitment to individual liberty and freedom. But the U.S. was forged in a frontier spirit of cooperation and collective enterprise that was as simple and forthright as a barn-raising. Western thinkers from John Locke to Oliver Wendell Holmes believe that individuality at some point has to give ground to group needs. It has taken a successful country on the rim of Asia to remind the U.S. that teamwork, however it is organized, is still the prerequisite for a prosperous society. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by S. Chang and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...work by lots of capable actors. Among Mayer's previous collaborators, Woodward Wickham is an unmagical magician and Andrea Portago a plebian Lady, but Francis Gitter has a compelling presence, rivetingly sad eyes, and moments of gaunt, tranquil beauty as Aladdin's mother, and Vincent Canzoneri is a wittily forthright Scholar Wu. As the Grand Wazir, David Prum reveals a precious comic style, a sublimely funny blend of ham and deadpan, and Jenny Cornuelle, a most impudently regal actress, is a flashing, mesmerizing Sultan. Maybe best of all is the Princess of Bonnie Zimmering, who has never seemed as exquisitely...
Though such a declaration of interest is unexpected, at least it is forthright--much more so than the publisher's less-evident ploy of adorning the back cover with a glowing comment from someone quoted copiously in the text, it also obliquely relieves the misgivings of a reader who may have expected a balanced discussion...
...month since Derek Bok was named president of Harvard University, and nearly ten years since he assumed office. Over the past decade, Bok has managed to keep Harvard gliding across turbulent times on an even keel. He has made himself a man of open letters, suing that ingenious and forthright method to silence critics and divert the energies of a contentious community. When the issue of Harvard's holdings in companies doing business in South Africa and a proposal to name the Kennedy School library after an American entrepreneur in South Africa threatened to alienate large parts of the community...
That sociologist--Charles V. Willie, now professor of Education and Urban Studies--does not back away from any scraps. While Willie tries to avoid racial confrontations, his theories encompassing race relations and desegregation (his fields of expertise), are forthright. Asserting "Willie's Law," he says, "They will do it to you as long as you let them...