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...calls it "conservatism of the heart," an ideological recoil from the wreckage left by an unfettered free market. "What is conservatism all about?" he asks. "Reagan used to talk about family, faith, work, neighborhood, community. Communities are being torn apart. Families are under tremendous economic pressure. Conservatives are going to have to ask themselves, What is it we want to conserve...
Epsom seems torn between the commercialism of the fast food joints on its rotary and the amicability of a general store where the man behind the counter greets customers by name...
...must solve are so cruel and visceral that I find myself amazed that anyone could conceive of them, let alone decide they were appropriate fare for a major motion picture. The final scene of the movie is a glorious tribute to nihilism in which Brad Pitt's world is torn apart by a senseless crime that leaves the viewer convinced that life is meaningless, that pain will always triumph over happiness and that it's kinder to abort an unborn child than to bring it into the world...
...those hardest hit by it: Latinos and African Americans in the poorest parts of New York City. "The crime reduction has been across the board, in every neighborhood," says Bratton. That means four fewer people killed on the wealthy Upper East Side, but 51 fewer killed in war-torn East New York. The people who live there have noticed the change. "It used to be that I was throwing myself on the floor with my son all the time," says Elisandra Beltran, 27, "because of the bullets flying through my window. But now I haven't seen a bullet hole...
Faculty members feel they are under economic pressure, torn between their mission of being teachers and watching the bottom line, said Dr. Benjamin Sachs, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel and clerkship director for medical education at Harvard...