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...BACK and forth on the balls of his feet when he talks. He still leaves the impression of a compact nuclear device as drawn by Herblock--shaking slightly on its launch pad, Yoda-shaped and oracular, although somewhat mellowed by the years. He is capable now of an occasional shrug that says, "Who knows...
...increasing vulnerability to high-tech terror acts by fringe groups that are escalating their acts of violence. Our only safeguards against these threats are vastly improved intelligence sources and basic security measures, all of which we seem to regard as more expensive than our system can afford. Accordingly we shrug and go on with our lives, accepting the risk. But why continue to spend vast sums on absurd military projects when the same funds could protect us from a real threat? America's military planners are not just wasting money (no small sin) but are also guilty of outright mismanagement...
...many modern Catholics, the question of a gay clergy inspires a big shrug. Why shouldn't homosexuals (and women) be priests? These days, they are among the few who want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest is, after all, Christ's salesman and stand-in. He need not be infallible--since he is human and conceived in sin-but he'd damn well better be discreet. So it is one thing for old Matthew to keep a woman quietly in the rectory; it is another for young...
...sellers like Larry Snyder, a Denver home builder and gun fancier, you don't see phones. He does ``private-party sales,'' which don't require sales records or background checks. For unlicensed sellers, not much has changed. ``People are buying as many guns as ever,'' Snyder says with a shrug...
...trends are seldom entirely reassuring. Smoking is down among adults, though lung-cancer deaths continue to rise rapidly among women because they began smoking in large numbers less than 50 years ago. But teenagers, with their genius for perversity, are smoking more than in recent years. Should adult society shrug and blame Joe Camel, or hit the kids over the head with market forces in the form of a $2-a-pack...