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...career criminal" programs that successfully concentrate on locking away those habitual offenders. Such clarity of vision is already permitting a careful?and, yes, hopeful?assessment of exactly what prisons can and cannot be expected to do. Prisons are a mess, but they may not be irretrievable. Rather, a new, sober set of hopes is required. Prisons can be made clean and safe and fair, and they can be used more judiciously: decent prisons for society's most indecent members...
...given courage, a sense of adventure and a little bit of humor. I have had a wonderful life. I have never regretted what I did." The odor of bitter irony, intentional or not, arises from this simple declaration by Ingrid Bergman. She was a wise, sober and gifted woman, wryly self-aware in a manner unusual in her profession, gallant in a way that is rare anywhere. But once, many years ago, she had an extramarital affair with one of her directors-an event not without precedent in human history-and the shape of her life and her career...
...after. Says a friend: "It's best you avoid Clay when he's hung over. You go in at your own risk. He butts his head against the fence so hard sometimes that we have to go out and calm him down." Usually, that is enough to sober up Clay Henry, a 130-lb. black mountain goat...
...usually lost amid the Watt bombast and anti-Watt bombast. He claims to wish that opponents would "sit down and intellectually discuss a subject with me instead of screaming." Yet in fact, Watt's antipathy for environmentalists, whom he dismisses as "left-wingers," practically precludes any such sober give and take. "Jim Watt did not make an honest attempt to come to terms with our concerns," says Jay Hair, executive vice president of the largely Republican National Wildlife Federation. "He kicked us out and slammed the door behind...
...hour of sports, and then two hours of world and national reports. "A newspaper you can watch" is the way Turner describes it. The format for the rest of the day is much like an extended version of NBC's Today or ABC's Good Morning America: sober and almost impersonal in the hourly news summaries, folksy in such soft segments as Arden Zinn's exercise class and Dr. Steve Kritsick's advice on pet care, downright gossipy in the late-night hour of Hollywood chitchat by longtime