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Every good story will not only captivate its viewers but also give them some insight into what it means to be a human being. By so doing, it can help them grow into the deeply centered, sovereignly free, joyously loving human beings God made them to be. Meaning, freedom and love -- the supreme human values. And this is the kind of human enrichment the American viewing public has a right to expect from those who make its entertainment...
...White House beat: frustration with the steady diet of manufactured events. Amid the tedium of 1989, Duffy recalls, "we discovered that Bush was popular not despite his lack of action but because of it -- and what's more, we learned it was largely by design." From this insight grew the ultimate Duffy- Goodgame collaboration, their book chronicling Bush's first term, Marching in Place, just published by Simon & Schuster and excerpted in this preconvention issue...
...nothing to compare with what he sees in U.S. cities. "When Palestinians or Israelis pull the trigger, at least they can articulate a cause they're fighting for. In Chicago or L.A., you've got 13-year-olds shooting people because they're bored." That's the kind of insight reporters like Jon bring to our pages when they become dissatisfied with simple answers...
...ABBREVIATION cynic, not one of those trendy, commentary-on-American-life-seeking, McLaughlin Group-windbag-aspirant media types. But while I thought I'd have wonderful new insight on Americans' diminishing powers of concentration, I've sat here all day, distractedly typing sentence fragments, searching for a new take on the topic...
...artful reworking of the too-dispiriting- for- words 1988 presidential campaign. He achieves the near impossible by making us care -- and vicariously relive -- the failed and half-forgotten presidential quests of Bob Dole, Dick Gephardt, Joe Biden and Gary Hart. He even mines a few fresh nuggets of insight about the oft-ridiculed campaign styles of George Bush and Michael Dukakis...