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...this cynical age of corruption in sports and politics, it renews one's hope to have someone like basketball's Shaquille O'Neal for youngsters to emulate [SPORT, June 19]. As you noted, Shaq has dipped into some serious treatises. What a wonderful world it would be if a kid should say, "When I grow up, I want to be just like Shaq," and then proceed to pester his parents to buy a copy of Aristotle's classic work Nichomachean Ethics. FRANK DOOLEY Whitesboro...
...doubts the dominant presence of O'Neal on the court, but why must everyone adopt a policy of selective vision? What about his inflated salary, obscenely palatial home and the fact that he is an unwed father twice over? Do we really want to lionize a man who, for all his laudable qualities, also exemplifies excess and social irresponsibility? LISA AND JOSHUA VELTMAN Columbus, Ohio...
...love, not war, despite Venter's uncanny ability to get under the skin of Collins and other leaders of the U.S.-British genome project. So had Collins' counterparts at other NIH institutes. And so, most important, had President Clinton, who at one point scribbled a note to science adviser Neal Lane with the terse instruction: "Fix it...make these guys work together...
...Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Neal Gabler argued that celebrity culture had created a universal lust for the camera, and he sees these series as a case in point. "Reality has become the greatest entertainment of all," he says. "It's symptomatic of a larger phenomenon that all of life is entertainment." It's a grand argument, appealing to our now conditioned distrust of the fame machine. But it's an easy one to take too far. In fact, most of us don't want to, in Gabler's words, "get to the other side of the glass...
Jeff Bridges got zapped into it in TRON. Keanu Reeves reached it by means of a red pill in The Matrix. In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash--a cult classic in Silicon Valley--our hero, Hiro Protagonist, goes there wearing goggles and a pair of virtual-reality gloves. It's where I expect to be spending my evenings in the twilight of my life, without ever leaving the comfort of my sofa. And--who knows?--maybe I'll meet you there...