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When Rose Cipollone was an impressionable 1940s teenager, a smoldering cigarette in the hand of a glamorous starlet seemed to sum up sophistication. Before she died of lung cancer in 1984, some 15,000 packs later, Cipollone and her husband filed suit against three cigarette manufacturers, claiming that intense advertising and industry health claims had drawn her into a deadly | nicotine habit. Last week the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. However the high court rules, the result will deeply affect the enormous tobacco industry...
...that sum, theatergoers get the patented English-musical mix of romance and melodrama, soliloquy and strife, all bound up in an unsurpassed spectacle. Seen through the eyes of two Vietnamese characters -- a pimp and hustler of irredeemable cynicism called the Engineer (Jonathan Pryce) and a woman of unquenchable faith and optimism called Kim (Lea Salonga) -- the narrative fuses a crude soap-opera plot with subtle satire of relations between capitalism and the Third World. Big in cast (45), emotion and physical sweep, the story ranges from the neon vice bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades...
...embrace it. Proposals to raise education standards meet local opposition because they would be expensive and inconvenient. When the Pentagon tries to save billions by closing obsolete bases, hawks and doves fight to preserve them. Last year Americans spent $5 billion at movie box offices. A fraction of that sum could dramatically reduce infant mortality. It is all a matter of priorities...
...sum, On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother will disconcert even a seasoned reader of philosophy. The book laments the treasures of past years rather than proposing any solutions. Despite his fine detail and obvious cultural acumen, Cantor does not realize that the current generation needs new questions, not hackneyed phrases. Society's questions must be answered by contemporary adaptations of old theories. This timeliness will make them relevant and realistic for the generation of people to which they appeal
...group has a life of its own that is far more than, and bizarrely different from, the sum of the individuals in it. The group belongs to a different moral order from the individual. It has its appetites and impulses, its voice, its collective will and emotions and personality. It has a mind of its own that can be frightening and inexplicable, like a domesticated animal, a pit bull or rottweiler, that may turn unpredictably vicious, attacking the children, doing wild-animal things no one could foresee...