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...Anyone who has talked about TV with Harvard students well knows that "I hardly watch any TV--just the news" is a common boast. To admit that watching TV is sometimes more fun than reading a book is a heretical apostasy--the entertainment of TV is steeped in sin...
What makes people gay? To conservative moralists, homosexuality is a sin, a willful choice of godless evil. To many orthodox behaviorists, homosexuality is a result of a misguided upbringing, a detour from a straight path to marital adulthood; indeed, until 1974 the American Psychiatric Association listed it as a mental disorder. To gays themselves, homosexuality is neither a choice nor a disease but an identity, deeply felt for as far back as their memory can reach. To them, it is not just behavior, not merely what they do in lovemaking, but who they are as people, pervading every moment...
...time there seemed little doubt that Sirhan, who detested Kennedy's pro-Israel stance, was guilty as sin. He was there; he fired at Bobby. But over the years, investigators, including police and FBI agents, have challenged the official version of events. This week more than 160 stations of the National Public Radio network will air a 60-minute documentary, The RFK Tapes, which contends that the case against Sirhan is, or ought to be, far from closed. Producer-narrator William Klaber proposes that Sirhan was a brainwashed setup for the real killer. (One oft-cited suspect, who denies involvement...
Such moments have become commonplace as relations between the President and the press have deteriorated. Many reporters and editors who once gave candidate and President-elect Clinton generally favorable coverage are today, like the country, underwhelmed. He and his staff are committing, in their view, the one unforgivable sin short of criminality: incompetence...
...opening for those, like Saddam Hussein, who would love to make Clinton's life harder. Last week the appearance of disarray only heightened when Christopher had to disavow lunchtime remarks made to reporters by Under Secretary Peter Tarnoff, the State Department's chief operating officer. Tarnoff's principal sin appeared to be telling unpalatable truths: that the end of the cold war and economic troubles at home required a smaller world role for Washington, which would expect more from its allies and not give the world so firm a lead. This approach "is not different by accident but by design...