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...hand [VIEWPOINT, March 23]. I fully support fair practices for working men and women, but the business world is not a perfect place. It was built on competition, human communications, flexibility and risk. Men as well as women have had to endure hardships and personal challenges to succeed. Both men and women should exhibit tact and professionalism toward those with whom they work. And women in the workplace need to toughen their attitudes and demonstrate their ability to function in a variety of situations. KYLE CHERITON Tokyo...
...strong Premier. His efforts to downsize the government will definitely be met with firm resistance from a wide range of bureaucrats. The nation today is not like the China of old, when the one-man shows of Mao and Deng could be played on the political stage. To succeed nowadays, top leaders need to demonstrate unity and abandon political juggling. JEAN K. LAM Hong Kong...
...there no resistance to his disastrous projects? There was. But it was too feeble, too weak and too late to succeed. German society had rallied behind him: the judicial, the educational, the industrial and the economic establishments gave him their support...
...children have created an elaborate culture of fantasy. The more brilliantly our moviemakers and television makers succeed in their work of the technological and artistic imagination, the more their audiences are transported back into the realm of the child-id that is most hospitable to fantasy--a zone of suspended disbelief wherein all things become possible, including deeds of graphic violence. It is sometimes said that too many television shows and movies are cynically targeted at 12-year-olds. That's not exactly the point: the makers of those shows in effect appropriate the imaginative world of the child because...
...explanation is that the story From the Earth to the Moon tries to tell is too vast to be contained even in 12 hours. The movie Apollo 13 was a success largely because of its simple, intense narrative--guys go up in space, look as if they'll die, succeed in not dying. The mini-series is much more diffuse. Hanks and his colleagues have tried to be selective, but the smaller stories they tell either are not the right ones or are not dramatized effectively...