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While I applaud the Promise Keepers' vows to mend their ways through penance, responsibility and religion, I cannot help feeling that this "boys' club" is merely a smoke screen for an effort to gain dangerous power over others. What would happen if these men kept their promises of love, respect and commitment toward loved ones without the burden of being "in command"? I find it frightening, yet sad, that they cannot separate love from power. JANIS BABCOCK Danville, Calif...
...Nights is, again, right on the money. Our collective capacity to learn a moral lesson is non-existent. The flesh, drugs and rock and roll of the 1970s gave way to the rape erotica, harder drugs and Boy George of the 1980s. When we hit rock bottom, rather than mend our ways, we opted to re-define some terms. Redemption was no longer associated with reformation. It came free with apology. Broken families were simply replaced by a new definition of family. For those who left their wives and children penniless, the co-inhabitants of their crack house became their...
...brother, our friend. Only time will help our hearts to mend," the student read...
Even without the campaign-finance scandal, this had promised to be a darkly hued fall for the Vice President. After spending the past two years trying to mend his relations with organized labor, Gore this week will join Clinton in reopening an old wound as the Administration launches its bid for new authority to negotiate trade deals as ambitious and divisive as 1993's North American Free Trade Agreement. December will find Gore in Japan grappling with a global-warming treaty that pits his long-standing environmentalist allies against labor and business...
Already, prepublication, the book is causing a stir. Christopher Edley, President Clinton's point man on the "mend it, don't end it" approach to affirmative action, published a rebuttal in Harvard magazine in July. Kirkus Reviews has declared the book "likely to be seen as the benchmark scholarly study of America's current anguish over the race question." The New Republic is planning an excerpt...