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...This scenario isn't nice. In fact, it sounds cold-blooded. But if someone disregarded the welfare of her family by adopting dangerous or infectious homeless strangers, her commitment to abstract fairness and compassion would require a corresponding callousness to her already existing dependents. We might well call this single-minded idealism cold-blooded-- a selfish sentimentality, if you will...
Getting to this point logically is harder than it sounds. The love-as- cultural-delusion argument has long seemed unassailable. What actually accounts for the emotion, according to this scenario, is that people long ago made the mistake of taking fanciful literary tropes seriously. Ovid's Ars Amatoria is often cited as a major source of misreadings, its instructions followed, its ironies ignored. Other prime suspects include the 12th century troubadours in Provence who more or less invented the Art of Courtly Love, an elaborate, etiolated ritual for idle noblewomen and aspiring swains that would have been broken to bits...
...scenario is exactly the same as last year, when Harvard and Brown, both undefeated, faced off in the Pizzitola Sports Center in early February...
...ends stated by Schaefer and other concerned officials are indisputably desirable; a smaller underclass, which means less suffering in general and less burden to the state. But using Norplant as a means of social control is at the least questionable and at most conjures up a nightmarish Orwellian scenario...
...with military officials during the transition about how best to lift the ban during the first 30 days of the term "with minimum disruption to combat effectiveness." Working through intermediaries was Clinton's first mistake, says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, who opposes gays in the military. "A smarter scenario would have been to ask ((the Chiefs)) down to Little Rock during the transition, bring up the subject and say, 'Look, I made this commitment, help me work my way through this.' Instead, the Chiefs were just told to do this and do that...