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...indeed learn something from old TV shows. Pleasantville is not so much crying out against television media, as has become the fashion, but rather suggesting we affix a gentle warning label on the myths that it purveys. We can watch stiff sitcom characters in their make-believe worlds and gain the wisdom that it is better, all things considered, to have the element of the unexpected in our lives. Harvard students, take note: the possibility of things not going according to plan is, after all, what keeps us real...
...pursuits by the primary intention of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth. Why is this misguided, if not morally grotesque? Because it represents a conscious decision to operate under the constraints of the profit motive, which is--by its very nature--socially irresponsible. The primary intention is always to maximize private gain--to conceive of the world selfishly, as if there were no "incentive" to look out for fellow human beings. It systematically corrodes one's conscientious obligation to pursue activities that benefit society as a whole, and especially those activities that benefit society's most disadvantaged members, whose destitution...
WASHINGTON: Republicans are rubbing their heads and looking for leadership after Tuesday's political train wreck. For the first time since 1934, the party occupying the White House recorded a midterm net gain in the legislature, winning five House seats and holding their ground in the Senate. Voters were more concerned with the economy and education than with Monica Lewinsky, and appeared to rebuke the Republicans for their handling of those issues. "This was the Republicans' election to lose," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Voters sent a strong message to Washington to back...
...Netanyahu's tarrying reflects a philosophical reluctance to embrace the land-for-peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin. "Rabin saw peace as a win-win proposition for both sides," says Beyer. "But Netanyahu approaches the peace process on the basis that Israel loses when the Palestinians gain." In other words, for Bibi, peace is the continuation of war by other means. Which means we may hear some pretty creative excuses before he orders home any Israeli troops...
WASHINGTON: So much for the six-year itch. When Tuesday dawned, Republicans could reasonably wish for a five-seat gain in the Senate, which would have made their majority filibuster-proof. Instead, they suffered an astonishing defeat. The Democrats picked up five seats in the House -- a gain without historical precedent for the party that holds the White House. "This was the Republicans? election to lose," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Heading up the GOP casualties: outspoken New York Senator Al D?Amato, unseated by Rep. Chuck Schumer despite spending a record-breaking...