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James Russel Lowell, the famous Harvard English professor and 19th century abolitionist poet, wrote with regard to learning from the past, "[W]e make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free." Just as it is so easy to create an anachronistic philosophy of life out of an old truth passed down from previous generations, it is also easy to let our fears of repeating the past hold us prisoner. President Clinton can't let go and let the past be the past...
...China is no different, but Beijing sees something more systematic and more sinister. "In China, more and more people are wondering, What are the Americans up to?" says Cui Liru, a scholar at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "Quite a number believe the Americans regard a powerful China as a hindrance to the U.S. in its bid to maintain world dominance, and so are trying hard to keep China weak and divided...
Regardless of how the suit is resolved, the clear loser will be Tepperman's stricken wife, the victim of an equal-opportunity disease that shows no regard for bottom lines or other totems of corporate life. The winners, of course, are those who enjoy the intoxicating spectacle of millionaires and billionaires wallowing in the mud. The trial is expected to last a month...
...displayed on a home computer? This, as any computer-savvy undergrad can testify, is old news. Yet suddenly the press is on alert, parents and teachers are up in arms, and lawmakers in Washington are rushing to ban the smut from cyberspace with new legislation--sometimes with little regard to either its effectiveness or its constitutionality...
...says these incidents "raise some importantethical issues" with regard to the nominationbecause Fried "reveals him self to be far lessthan exemplary...