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DESPITE HOLLYWOOD'S SELF-RIGHTEOUS indignation at supposed threats to the First Amendment, let's not lose sight of the sole reason film producers turn out gory movies and vitriolic lyrics: money. To expect entertainment moguls to stop peddling lucrative scum is just about as realistic as to expect hyenas to become vegetarians. R. Alex Kaseberg La Jolla, California AOL: ThorDoggie...
...winning elections and ensuring themselves a place in the sun till the end of their days. Their role is something quite different: to assume their share of responsibility for the long-range prospects of our world and thus to set an example for the public in whose sight they work. Their responsibility is to think ahead boldly, not to fear the disfavor of the crowd, to imbue their actions with a spiritual dimension (which of course is not the same thing as ostentatious attendance at religious services) to explain again and again--both to the public and to their colleagues...
...President should fight for his own, 10-year plan. "The proposal represents a break from the past," Carney says. "What has remained the same is his failure to follow through when he's made major proposals. He's made a big speech, and there's no follow-through in sight." Since Clinton can't veto the GOP budget agreement, Carney adds, the battle now moves to the congressional appropriations committees that craft the actual spending bills...
...author's line of sight has shifted, maybe broadened. A theme that recurs is of white medics in Africa. Heroism here consists of crumbling into alcoholism, drugs and depression as slowly as possible, and with as much grace. Occasional joyousness is real but fragmented. The narrator of the title story is a washed-up doc, fired from his African aid mission and back home in the U.S., who is taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right...
...have an all-white staff choosing the candidates, if you don't have any amongst them when you discuss [affirmative action], out of sight is out of mind," she says...