Word: self-control
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Even severe critics see the remedy as editorial self-control. No one wants regulation. However, says Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press at Harvard, "what frightens me is the prospect that one day either Congress or a state legislature may feel the need to vote restrictions against the press as one way of containing the excesses of local news...
...risk of being tried as an adult and sent to jail for embezzling from "An Evening With Champions"? At 18, we're entrusted with legal control over and responsibility for our actions. Three years later, we're granted the legal right to get drunk and risk losing self-control and abusing that responsibility...
...could be worse. How would you like to be in charge of teaching current events? Or self-control? In Philadelphia, Ginny Coco teaches sixth-grade health at the J.R. Masterman School, and she had just got to "Sexuality and Decision Making" when the names Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers bumped Fidel and the Pope off the radar screen...
...remain powerless to curb this threat to students' lives. At the very least, Krueger's terrible death has snapped college students back into the grim realization that, while drinking is enjoyable and harmless most of the time, when someone drinks so much that he or she loses all self-control, that person is flirting with death. That fact should be drilled into all first-years' minds...
...what can you expect from the culture that brought us Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children in an inexplicable fit of rage and is condemned to perform his superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra...