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...government daily spends $1 billion more than it collects as constituting "a moral and economic crisis." One speaks with the voice of a retiring baby boomer, while the other voices the concerns of a young generation about to inherit the burden of an unprecedented government debt. Which viewpoint should responsible citizens with the national interest in mind heed...
...always able to help herself adjust to the demands of mainstream journalism. A gifted prose stylist, she could not blend her need to write from a black perspective with the ostensibly objective stance of a conventional daily. Post editors claimed that they recruited Nelson because they valued her viewpoint. But when she wrote wrote anything with a point of view, they usually buried the story in the back pages or didn't publish it. Increasingly frustrated by second-rate assignments and alienated from her peers, Nelson veered toward an emotional breakdown. Her last months at the Post were marred...
Thom Jones' first book is a sheaf of extraordinary short stories, most of them about scarred, damaged men on the far side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving...
...couple of us do editorial. A woman heads design," she said. "We're here to give the alternative viewpoint-to keep things in check...
Despite the growing numbers, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe believes Wisconsin-style statutes are reasonable and necessary. "The absolute right to think and believe what you want," says Tribe "and to express any viewpoint, however hateful, has nothing to do with some kind of license to target victims of violence based on their race, sex, religion or sexual orientation." If the court struck down these laws, he adds, "the decision would cast a long shadow of doubt over all antidiscrimination measures and much of criminal law because the state of mind of the offenders is typically a critical element...