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...SAVING PRIVATE RYAN The director of Schindler's List surely knows that World War II was morally necessary. So it is a measure of Steven Spielberg's maturity that by opening Saving Private Ryan with what may be the most unforgettably brutal sequence in the history of war movies--his astonishing re-creation of the Omaha Beach landing--he forces us to wonder if any cause can justify such carnage. It is a measure of his growth as a questioning humanist that the rest of his tense, brilliantly wrought epic puts men in mortal peril as they attempt to rescue...
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...attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder for which he receives Ritalin. It is difficult to list the ways a lack of impulse control can affect a child and his family. Our son was one month away from his fifth birthday when we realized we needed help. He incinerated food in the microwave, turned off the hot-water heater and opened the water-release valve, forced several steak knives through a wooden fence and finally bloodied a pet. Does this sound like an unsupervised child? I am home full time with him, and vigilance was the key word. Even with all the unanswered...
Today's brave new world has its own version of Soma: Ritalin. The list of behaviors that help determine if a child is hyperactive and a candidate for Ritalin is a list of behaviors all children exhibit at one time or another. Our job as parents is to teach our children to listen, sit still, concentrate and be patient and responsible. I fear what sort of adults these medicated children will become. MARY MANCINELLI South Lyon, Mich...
Looking over the list of behaviors that could define hyperactive children, I was struck by the fact that they describe what we used to call an obnoxious little brat. Pity the poor parents who have to resort to drugs to replace good old-fashioned parenting. Do any of the kids who take Ritalin learn, through some weird chemical process, good manners, politeness, kindness and altruism? Are parents that naive, or do they just want to turn their kids into zombies and avoid the whole problem of parenting? RICHARD ORLANDO Montreal...