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...purports that Dr. Goldstein's horrific crime deserves anything but the harshest condemnation; such enormity as his confutes our sense of decency to the point of moral despair. Nonetheless, the argument that his insanity precludes a discussion of the national policy that permitted him to act borders on intellectual sophistry. The fact that Dr. Goldstein did not act for Israel does not wholly absolve Israel from responsibility...
...hometown: 69 people died and more than 200 were injured in that worst attack yet on civilians in Sarajevo. A decade ago in that beautiful pastel city, everyone in the world was young and strong and fearless, sporting and peaceful and clean. Back then, so long ago, the harshest stories being told were of how much one had to pay for a beer...
That he can stand without crutches today is a minor miracle because, at 53, James L. Brooks has endured his harshest professional challenge. Last August, after three years of work, he had the first test screening of I'll Do Anything, his Hollywood father-daughter story with musical numbers written by Prince, Carole King and Sinead O'Connor and with choreography by Twyla Tharp. It's tough enough under the best of circumstances for the fretful filmmaker to let go of his babies and present them to audiences. But this time Brooks saw his anxiety justified. Audience response was calamitous...
...encourage the people around here all the time, when we're under all this pressure, that we should be on a personal basis with our own harshest critics, but that we should never permit the criticism of others to diminish our self-image. I think one of the things we all have to guard against here in this town is that it is so fixated on politics and demands such long hours of most people that you forget what a balanced life is like. It makes people more vulnerable...
...harshest blow is the one struck against efficiency. the huge abatements boost corporate profits, but more significantly they encourage a highly costly and inefficient storm of corporate relocations, and inevitably, social dislocations. Companies don't become more efficient by moving; they merely enrich themselves on the extravagant bribes offered by local governments in order to buy jobs, and hence popularity...