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Ever since his collection of moral tales, The Book of Virtues, began its 88-week ride on the New York Times best-seller list, Bennett has plumbed and profited from America's anxiety over the decline in standards of moral behavior. The success of his first Virtues anthology spawned two profitable sequels and a cartoon show, which debuted last week on PBS. Meanwhile, he has co-written a new book called Body Count, to be published this month, which blames the rise of young criminal predators on a "moral poverty" born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too-easy divorce...
...learned this last fall when I took a semester off to study in Strasbourg, France. The Universite de Strasbourg has no varsity teams. There is no school newspaper, nor political journals, nor even a Model Congress, despite the presence of the European Parliament just a short bus ride from the city center...
...funny, and the tour takes you to all the important sites. Like Cheers. Afterwards, board the Boston Tea Party ship in Boston Harbor and throw tea over-board (it's all environmentally correct; they haul it in again). In the spring, be sure to take a swan boat ride in the Public Garden--you read about them in Make Way for Ducklings. On both boats, you'll be about twice as tall and three times as old as everyone else, but that's part...
Morris: Harry Thomason's. It was brilliant. I liked it because if the old liberals had succeeded in co-opting our convention--which they didn't, as it turned out--then there could be a form of triangulation: the Republican Convention, the Democratic Convention, with the train ride as the President's own convention in the middle...
Richard Jewell sprang his dog last week. After what his ever present media watchers described as a high-speed ride to the kennel, he fetched her home, and the stop-and-go progress of the spooked Doberman and bulky owner across the Jewell front lawn was deemed sufficiently fascinating to make the nightly news. Jewell had apparently decided that it was inhumane to keep a canine accused of no wrongdoing indefinitely in close quarters, with limited exercise and under constant watch of strangers...