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That all sounded too simple to be true. At this time of year, with wrenching pictures of starving Somalis on view, anyone who raises questions about succoring them risks being labeled heartless. Nor is there a strong case to be made against applying a moral standard to diplomacy: using military might in the name of humanitarianism is an estimable principle...
...conservative era" did not spring from Reaganite nostalgia for a mythical American Eden, or from a crass conspiracy of the greedy and heartless, but from international phenomena: the welfare state had grown too gargantuan, too ineffective and had to be cut back; it became clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...
...algos (pain). For years Walcott has divided his calendar equally between Boston, where he teaches literature and creative writing at Boston University, and a residence in Trinidad, a base for his frequent travels elsewhere in the Caribbean. This regular shuttling between two worlds has kept his poetry balanced between heartless skill and artless passion. The speakers of Walcott's poems are half strangers wherever they find themselves, not because they want to be but because they have no choice. In The Lighthouse, an island vendor approaches the poet and smiles: "Fifty? Then/ you love home harder than youth...
...Hero" is anything but a subtle lampooning of a not-so-subtle profession and institution: TV journalism. The film capitalizes on the popular perception that journalists, who are heartless, award-and-ratings-hungry scavengers, will do everything to capture the attention of an all-too-easily moved and naive public. But, in executing this satire, "Hero" seems to parody itself. Its attack on the media and popular conceptions of heroes is not so much barbed as it is simplistic. The comedy is as formulaic as the TV news shows it seeks to spoof, relying on a backbone of sight gags...
...first blush, Bush's plan strikes a chord: few who deal with the government regularly have a good word for those they encounter. On reflection, though, the President's scheme is a heartless swipe at a defenseless group of dedicated civil servants, designed to capture the knee-jerk support of an economically strapped electorate. "It may not be good policy," concedes a Bush adviser, "but it's damn good politics...