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...discourage the expression of dissent and especially to show how much more enlightened and sophisticated they are than the rest of us. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a bigot, a racist, a homophobe and so on through the catalog of epithets the Left has rendered meaningless through reckless overuse. They explain away people who hold views different from their own by attributing to such backward folk the all-purpose motivation of Hate...
...Called Hope means something different from what Bill Clinton intended in that brilliantly mawkish convention speech line. Hope is required precisely because Clinton himself is so flawed. Otherwise, we could simply swoon, and hope would be superfluous. But Clinton is a dissembler, like all (successful) politicians. He is a reckless maker of incompatible promises that destine every subgroup of his supporters to feel betrayed about something. He is wrong about some issues, cowardly about others, right on fewer than any individual supporter might wish...
...Nevertheless, another hour of truth had come for Boris Yeltsin. Instead of climbing on top of a tank and shaking his fist, he looked into television cameras and spoke in measured tones for 25 minutes. There was no mistaking the import of his words. He was taking the heady, reckless gamble of plunging Russia into a struggle for power as fateful as the one begun by the earlier coup attempt -- and probably even more chaotic...
...moved to Berkeley, where he has been teaching ever since, and in 1979 relocated to an Oakland neighborhood of the type his parents "spent about a third of their lives trying to escape." Reed has published poetry anthologies, plays and 10 novels, including Freelance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo and Reckless Eyeballing. He spoke with The Crimson recently about his latest satire, Japanese by Spring, and his status as the "bad boy of American publishing...
Last week Jackson tried for mass-media redemption and went megaplatinum. Part grand Oprah, part soap Oprah, the Winfrey show was at the very least great TV: live, reckless, emotionally naked. For his first television interview in 14 years, Jackson won a huge audience -- the largest, excluding Super Bowls, in a decade -- and a forum to counter some of the zanier rumors that have swirled around him. He rebutted the charge that he sleeps in a , hyperbaric chamber; the photo suggesting that he did actually showed him, he said, testing equipment at a burn center he founded after being "burned...