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Novelists, on the other hand, need have no such scruples, and here are two who certainly don't. John Darnton, chief London correspondent for the New York Times, has entered the arena with a book called Neanderthal (Random House; 368 pages; $24), centered on the large-brained human species that...
Ian Tattersall is chairman of the American Museum of Natural History's anthropology department. His most recent book is The Last Neanderthal (Macmillan; 1995).
On social issues, where Forbes' views seem less fully formed, his instincts run the gamut from noblesse oblige to let-them-eat-cake. He owns his home, for instance, so why shouldn't tenants in public housing have a chance to own theirs? He sends his kids to private schools...
The chief health official of the state of Virginia, Kay Coles James, attracted the usual supercilious ridicule by urging abstinence as a policy to reduce teenage pregnancy. It will not do, of course. Teenagers will no more abstain from sex than will the frisking neighborhood dogs, and it is fatuous...
GOEL: Could we stay on the subject of reviewing The Net; and not talk about a 10-year-old movie no one cares about anymore? And when you do talk about The Net all you can mention, like the Neanderthal you are, is "Ugggh, Sandra Bullock is hot!"