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Roth has always examined the perverse. For those who have followed Roth's heroes from dysfunctional adolescence, Mickey Sabbath is the logical endpoint: a cruel, brilliant, hormonal misanthrope, heartless and soulful. By now, dysfunction seems too kind a word to describe the protagonist's modus operandi. What we have here is malfunction...
Until a few weeks ago, the message emanating from the White House was not about standing firm but about standing apart. In a strategy conceived by Dick Morris, Clinton's controversial political consultant, the President was deliberately keeping his distance from both the heartless Republicans and the troglodyte Democrats in an effort to occupy the ground between them. But that approach has so alienated members of his party on Capitol Hill that Clinton and his aides have come to realize that without an immediate show of resolve, he may have no allies when it comes time to cut a budget...
...sure that many of you may think that we're heartless and lack compassion. But this reduction will hurt us more than it hurts you. Now, you'll have to adopt the Protestant work ethic that we cling to. This work ethic can help you rise to the top quickly even if you have no other moral sensibilities--just ask Michael Milken or Neil Bush...
...intention to portray Harvard Real Estate as an immoral, heartless organization. On the contrary, Harvard has demonstrated a significant level of concern for the homeless. Still, this does not make the cage acceptable. It remains a fundamentally unjust solution that discriminates against the homeless. And it illustrates the all-too-common tendency to treat the homeless as pests, not the human beings that they...
...American, I shed a tear over the rescue of O'Grady, just as I would have shed a tear had he not been saved. I have not, however, spilled any tears over all those who have died in Yugoslavia since the war began. Am I strange and heartless, or is the whole world like me? There is no reason for Americans to become involved in what is still a regional conflict (except as part of nato). European leaders are again proving that they were born with a wishbone instead of a backbone. Every second, minute or day the war continues...