Word: viewpoints
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...rank nearly as high as Steele's and Krantz's in breathy descriptions of dressing, undressing and furniture, have a brassy realism that saves them from the trash bin. And even though peace has broken out in the author's life, with the usual corrosive effects on a satirical viewpoint, the reader suspects that there are more battle communiques to be written in the ancient and always up-to-date war between the women...
After reading Charles Krauthammer's piece [VIEWPOINT, April 15] against allowing doctors to aid people in committing suicide, I was incensed at his cheap shot of inflammatory rhetoric when he derided the Dutch policy on euthanasia. He seems to want to instill fear in an aging American population. Not only did Krauthammer willfully overlook the profound differences in the Dutch and American health systems, he also seemed to misrepresent intentionally the facts of euthanasia in Holland, implying that involuntary euthanasia is a threat there...
...From my viewpoint, I've always considered that this whole issue started because Coke was not delivering the service that we needed," said Acting Director of HDS Leonard D. Condenzio. "We wanted to satisfy the students. More students want Coke, and we've always wanted to give them Coke...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, another Pulitzer-prizewinning contributor, strayed from his role as an Essayist seven weeks ago to write a beguiling piece for us about a chess match between Garry Kasparov and a computer. This week, in his Viewpoint column, Krauthammer, who has a medical degree and is a board-certified psychiatrist, addresses a subject on which he's even more qualified: judicial rulings on the right to die. "Medical ethics is the one area of medicine I still follow," says Krauthammer, who warns against allowing doctors to kill terminally ill patients. "Once these lines are crossed, the other side...
...corroboration by committee. Yet Funk made what many found to be a compelling argument. At a time when the airwaves were full of televangelists touting the New Testament as God-inspired, inerrant (correct in all ways) and supportive of right-wing views, here was a channel for another viewpoint. "Bob Funk's Jesus is quite different from my Jesus," Crossan says. But both longed to get beyond what they saw as the prevailing attitude toward historical questioning: "Don't say it out in public, don't bring it into the churches...