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...complexity of Jones's character is perpetuated by the fact that the audience is never sure of her intentions. As the insurance investigator on the trail of MacDougal, she comes across as an ambitious agent in pursuit of justice. As the story progresses, though, the authenticity of this image becomes questionable. At various times, she claims that she is a thief, just like MacDougal; yet she continues to report to her boss, indicating that she is merely using her thief story to trap MacDougal. To illustrate this uncertainty, the opening scene of the movie features a heist in which...
Throughout his talk, Sleeper urged the audience to examine the motives behind activism. He warned the audience of the evils of "moral posturing"--the pursuit of morality in activism without really grasping why the issue is moral...
Throughout his talk, Sleeper urged the audience to examine the motives behind activism. He warned the audience of the evils of "moral posturing"-the pursuit of morality in activism without really grasping why the issue is moral...
...Starr's pursuit of Steele is a puzzle. Some legal observers have wondered why Starr is so willing to go to the mat for Willey that he has made Steele's indictment the only one from the Lewinsky phase of his investigation that he is pursuing, even though she has never been more than a peripheral potential witness undercutting the claims of another peripheral witness in a civil case that is now history...
...logic, the sadness from the doctrine's "highfalutin moral principles [that] are impossible guides to foreign policy" and the inevitable wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge. One ought to gain some new learning and put it to use. But omniscience and omnipotence are beyond human capacity. MIKE M. BEHESHTI North Salt Lake, Utah...