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...matter that Archie tripped up on his own testiness and lost most of his arguments. As played by Carroll O'Connor, he was daringly, abrasively, yet somehow endearingly funny. With his advent, a mass-media microcosm of Middle America took shape, and a new national hero--or was it villain?--was born...
...read the stories by mothers confessing that in the dark night of the soul they can somehow understand what Andrea Yates did. But they don't kill their kids, do they...
...Andrea Yates make me think of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt's personification of such evil was Adolph Eichmann, the orderly and seemingly mild-mannered Nazi bureaucrat who helped orchestrate the killing of millions. The Yates's, too, in their own way, seemed somehow deeply and disturbingly ordinary...
...case of Andrea Yates, it seems to me an awfulness that somehow drifts outside the limits or the relevance of justice-a failure of nature, like the scrambled instruments of whales that relentlessly swim onto beaches, to drown themselves...
...Court ruled that a Rhode Island man does have the right to challenge the government's refusal to develop marshland property. Property owners everywhere should keep their rejoicing to a minimum, however. While the law provides landowners with financial recourse if the government's acquisition of their property somehow deprives them of income, the majority ruled this was not the case here. As is fairly typical of this Court, the Justices were eager to discount broader implications of their ruling, concentrating instead on the individual case. Here the Court ruled against Anthony Palazzolo, arguing that since he was permitted...