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Michael Kinsley is probably right in saying America is moving to the left on issues like marijuana and gay rights [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 9]. However, the fact that the country is moving to the left does not mean it is doing so intentionally, motivated by enlightened ideological considerations. Some people may have become more tolerant of the vices of others because they want their own vices to be tolerated in return. "You can have your vice if you will let me keep mine" is the philosophy underlying America's leftward shift. It is a benighted movement away from the light...
...something wonderful, depending on your viewpoint. One of the sweetest men ever to practice the sweet science, Holyfield had won only two of his past four fights, and the Nevada State Athletic Commission was so worried about a heart irregularity that it would not sanction the fight unless he received clearance from the Mayo Clinic. "Nobody thought I could win," Holyfield said last Friday during a swing through New York City. "Their judgments were not based on our talents, though, but on our images. It was the monster with hate in his heart versus a man who was always talking...
...think from the informal evaluations that it's not a widely held viewpoint, but I would love to pursue it," Davis said...
...working out, told partly from Devlin's viewpoint and partly, in convincing street language, from that of the drug dealers and their women, is spare and cinematic. Devlin, far out on a lonely voyage, saves his honor. Saves his daughter too. But it is the neighborhood that wins. Good ending, good novel. The author's most recent book before Ten Indians was All Souls Rising, a panoramic, 530-page historical novel about Haiti's slave rebellion in the 1790s. A lot of readers of the new novel who never read Bell before are going to be digging that...
...digging up stories around the country and the world. What has exploded is not news, but talk about the news; commentary, not information. Which makes the news explosion both more democratic and more suspect. Everyone from Kathie Lee Gifford to call-in viewers on Larry King Live has a viewpoint, and every viewpoint gets a hearing. Howard Stern may be as influential as Peter Jennings. MSNBC fills its airtime with a corps of interchangeable "contributors" who offer seat-of-the-pants opinions on whatever the big story of the day happens to be. It's cocktail party chat passing...