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...like "artistic integrity." Gomez is proud of the neighborhoods in which he grew up--in and around Somerville. But while he is interested in portraying life in down-and-out (mostly white) neighborhoods like the Brooklyn area in which "laws of Gravity" takes place, in no way does he profess to be a visionary or to be interested in art with a capital...
...should we care? This is a country in which a sixth of all married adults admit to having had affairs, in which seduction trails only murder as the most popular form of TV entertainment, in which condoms are handed out in the high schools. Yet, as voters, we profess shock that our candidates should behave...
...explain. In the best of all possible worlds, we would all both profess virtue and practice it. But in a fallen world, we will have our vices. And it must be said that the modern vices of overindulgence (dissipation and profligacy) compare favorably with those of a century ago, which carried more than a tinge of cruelty. We no longer, for example, countenance cockfighting, child labor or the hanging of petty thieves...
Israeli officials profess a commitment to closing the economic gap between the Arabs and Jews. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's declared goal is to equalize government spending on citizens in four years. Even if that happens, growing numbers of Israel's Arab citizens will be in an anomalous position: as long as the Palestinian problem is unresolved, their own country will be at war with them. In this case, says Ibrahim Sarsur, the Islamicist mayor of Kfar Qasim, "the circle of bloodshed will not be broken." If more Arab Israelis take up the battle for Islamic supremacy even...
Ryan said the courts already had limited whocould profess grievances, citing the case ofBeard V. Toyota Motors...