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...attacked, and both have retaliated by victimizing innocent people. Sharansky also complained of the moral equivalence that Amnesty's reports seem to confer on both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are - and should be called - atrocities. We should let Amnesty International alone. To attack its work is truly immoral. Simon Hytten Rome Cruise Acts Out Your article on tom cruise and his over-the-top profession of passion for actress Katie Holmes on the Oprah TV show...
...favorite album must've been," Springsteen speculated at a Pittsburgh concert. "I don't think he's been listening to this one," he added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk: "Now judge I got debts no honest man could pay/ The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they/ was takin' my house away/ Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man/ But it was more 'n all this that put the gun in/ my hand...
...practice, Gorbachev's program so far consists largely of public scolding of inefficient industry managers and incessant calls for "discipline" and "imaginative, honest and conscientious work from every individual, from worker to minister." His most striking measure to improve productivity has been to crack down on alcoholism by restricting production and consumption of vodka and other spirits...
...national championship is far from the only thing in college football that is mythical. Outrageous excesses and recruiting crimes are so common that honest successes and true champions would be difficult to identify even if the sport were not unwieldy by nature. On the first day of every new year, the country caucuses at a number of 70,000-seat fruit and flower stands in the hope of an ultimate result that is both tidy and moral. As in any morality play, the characters are wildly oversimplified and the ending can still be confusing...
Amid the ceremony, King's friends and former colleagues urged that the civil rights leader's birthday become an occasion not simply for dreamy nostalgia but for an honest inquiry into the meaning of King's life and its impact on the nation. Former King Aide Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker worried about "the risk of getting oversentimental and romanticizing the man to the point that he becomes unreal. The way to honor him is to understand what his work was and commit yourself to doing something...