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...more selective and idiosyncratic effort by Buddhist Stephen Mitchell (HarperCollins). Visotzky, in his The Genesis of Ethics (Crown), not only honors the moral insights he gained through his conversations but displays a psychologist's (or novelist's) ability to see the patriarchal dramas through the eyes of each participant, seldom condemning and usually illuminating. Panelist Naomi Rosenblatt is a psychotherapist, and her Wrestling with Angels (Delta, with co-author Joshua Horwitz) features the subheadings "When Children Become Hostage to Their Parents' Marriage" (Jacob, Esau, Isaac, Rebekah) and "Setting Limits on Self-love" (Joseph...
William John Bennett was born in 1943 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He was only four when his father, a mid-level bank employee, divorced his mother. Young Bill was an introverted child, seldom talking and always reading. His older brother Bob (now a celebrated Washington criminal lawyer for, among others, President Clinton) did the arguing and fighting for the two of them...
...course, politicians have always been willing to go on the record as firmly pro-morality. But seldom have they done it so relentlessly. And seldom have they had such a wellspring of bigthink to draw on. There's Ben Wattenberg's Values Matter Most, read and admired by Clinton. There's "the politics of meaning," a phrase Hillary Rodham Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former...
...about the Japanese government's ability to cope with medical emergencies. "The World Health Organization says this outbreak is the worst in modern history," reports TIME's Frank Gibney from Tokyo. "The culprit is a particularly virulent strain of e.Coli bacteria that originates in animal intestines. Although it is seldom fatal, the bacterium is one of the world's most agile and potent bacilli, almost impossible to stop once it is loose in the human food chain." Symptoms of 0157 E.coli infection include dehydration, stomach pains and bloody diarrhea. A severe case of the infection can lead to kidney failure...
...outside Yeltsin's inner council knows just what ailed him before last week's election. Officially he had a cold and had lost his voice. That is what his wife Naina said, explaining that he seldom got more than four hours of sleep a night during the campaign. In his made-for-television appearances just before last week's voting, he looked pale and stiff, but an old back injury often makes him move awkwardly. Doctors working for U.S. intelligence agencies tried some long-range diagnosis and concluded that Yeltsin probably was not suffering a recurrence of ischemia. More likely...