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...signs that the issue has captured the public's attention are manifest. Bennett's A Book of Virtues, a compilation of stories and fables intended to instill fundamental values, is on the top of the best-seller list. Features on the crisis of values have become commonplace on talk and news programs. Last week alone, Nightline had two programs on the issue...
...cargo manifest for Caroline Alexander's learned and delightful work of literary voyaging (The Way to Xanadu; Knopf; $23) might read something like this: toothbrush, 1; wide-brimmed straw hat, 1; large, leatherbound geographical and poetical tomes, six or seven dozen. But Alexander's account of her travels, undertaken to set foot and mind on the actual places around the globe that inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's misty and fantastical poem Kubla Khan, carries its erudition lightly...
...identity-orientation of campus and cultural politics so often seem antithetical to the purposes of each party in the arguments. It is often also difficult for those who descry this apparent hypocrisy not to aggravate the conflicts. Compassion is so easy to speak of and so difficult to manifest...
...with NATO again. Yet the most powerful military alliance in the world shows no signs of being ready to actually prevent the Serbs form taking Gorazde. Rather, the focus is still on somehow convincing the Serbs to come back to the negotiating table. The flaw in this strategy is manifest: why should the Serbs negotiate when they can take their prize at very low cost? The West still insists on treating the Serbs as wayward youths rather than the war criminals they...
...pace at which Roosevelt sped throughcollege was also manifest in his personal life. Hemarried his first wife in September 1978, just afew months after his college graduation...