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...violence against women. Think about it: If your friends talk about women in demeaning ways—as objects just to use—it is going to be hard to resist that attitude yourself. Therefore, while final clubs and athletic teams provide structured settings in which such heartless social conditioning can occur, it also happens at small social parties, in dorm rooms or clubs...
...Trujillo transposed in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $25) is heartless and uncannily shrewd, a man whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads...
...weak idea of tolerance. It has become a moral vacuum. Inspiring teachers are prohibited from discussing their moral or religious convictions with their students, and some students absorb this sour nihilism in dangerous ways. Recently, four teenagers in the Boston area were arrested for plotting a sick, heartless killing spree in their high school. Mass murders, gang activity and violence in public schools are now all too common. When will we learn that students in schools without positive moral aspirations will sink into festering amorality, alienation and even sociopathy...
...necessary ingredient of citizenship, and having open dialogues on governmental policy is about as American as it gets. Questioning the American exit strategy in this war, an exit strategy that presidential candidate Bush guaranteed would be a component of any military action, does not mean you are heartless. It simply means you don’t want to see the tragedies of Sept. 11 turn into another Vietnam...
...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...