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...Krinsky’s approach lacks enough perspective. Disordered eating, romantic failures, sexual insecurity, the high pressure and elitism of an Ivy environment—all these problems are real. The lines outside every Ivy League school’s counseling offices are proof enough of that. And the paradigm of the young female who wants to be sexually liberated while simultaneously desperate to please the males around her is a real one—there’s a reason this genre is all the rage. But Krinsky’s characters never quite convince us to take them...
...politician. My paradigm comes from the Scriptures. I say to the government that it cannot prescribe to me what I preach. Equally, no one in the black community can prescribe to me what I should do. I'm not in this game for personal kudos. I wish I weren't in the game at all. I have to follow biblical paradigms: prophets go on talking to kings; Moses goes to Pharaoh, even when he is told that Pharaoh is going to harden his heart. But he goes...
Evans mentioned last year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate, which he has severely criticized in many meetings since the event, as a paradigm of the sort of bad behavior to be avoided...
...careful analysts found--agree with it or not--a powerful internal consistency to John Paul's thought, although not along the individual-rights paradigm so central to Western secular social philosophy. His oft-repeated concept of the "dignity of the human person" defined person as a divine creation intrinsically inclined toward God and thus subject to divine laws best enunciated through the church. In his view, that dignity, which commenced at conception, was mortally affronted by contraception, abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty and wounded by war, anti-Semitism and the crushing debt repayments imposed upon poor nations. The pursuit...
...this paradigm shift lie the seeds of revolutionary change. The Internet is a two-way medium. Although it is delivered on a glowing screen, it isn't at all like television. It's not one-to-many, like traditional media, but many- to-many. It doesn't work in couch-potato mode. And as Canter and Siegel discovered, it doesn't take kindly to in-your-face advertising...