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...history of Western civilization is cnn legal analyst Greta Van Susteren. On the eve of the new millennium, she vows "to learn to comb my hair before my show rather than after." Medical and personal-grooming resolutions happen to be among my favorites. Here are two that I may or may not use this year, so feel free to borrow them if you'd like: "To actually mail in those occult fecal-blood tests that doctors always give you after checkups" and "to stop honking my rubber-bulb ear-wax-removal syringe during performances of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses...
Beware the prohibitive resolution though. You may find yourself victimized by the "don't-think-about-elephants" phenomenon. Injunctions against a certain activity can cause a person to become obsessed with engaging in that very activity. When I'm in a nonsmoking room in a hotel, all I can think about is smoking. Had I been in a smoking room, I wouldn't have given cigarettes a second thought. Prohibition stimulates desire. Put me in a non-haggis room and I'll immediately begin to crave haggis. Similarly, prohibitive New Year's resolutions can backfire. Vows like "I will stop...
...nice trivial resolution is our way of standing up to the hegemony of Y2K hype. And bearing in mind that New Year's-resolution making is traditionally an act of utter futility, it's critical that you keep yours as local and personal as possible. The guilt you may incur in having failed to end world hunger or stop global warming may be unendurable. But if you find yourself on Jan. 1, 2000, surrounded by cold, guttered candles and empty champagne bottles, already unflossed, thinking about elephants and muttering the F word, you can probably deal with...
...Carrey's uncanny portrayal of Kaufman may be the film's main draw, but it is Alexander and Karaszewski's re-creation of Kaufman's life, enigmatic and unapologetic, that best captures his anarchic spirit. "Sure, Jim's performance channeled the guy, but it's all part of a whole," explains Danny DeVito, who not only produced and co-stars in Man on the Moon but also appeared with Kaufman on Taxi. "Without a good script, everybody knows you'll wind up empty-handed. They nailed him, baby...
...Roosevelt led that destroyed them. As Simon Wiesenthal wrote, "At the time I was a prisoner in Mauthausen, my last concentration camp, the name Franklin Roosevelt was the hope for freedom for me and my fellow prisoners. For those of us who were liberated by the U.S. Army in May 1945, Franklin Roosevelt is truly the Man of the Century." WILLIAM J. VANDEN HEUVEL, PRESIDENT Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute New York City...