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...might not be all there is. By then, of course, the flexibility to tolerate a big lug leaving his dirty socks on the floor and the luxury of having time to find one are both in short supply. It takes a tiny leap for those accustomed to satisfying every whim to see a baby as one more choice. It is a way to turn a life-style into a life in nine months...
...prayer for success: "In the name of the mambo and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha." Arne Glimcher, director of the exuberant new movie The Mambo Kings, may have a prayer of his own: In the name of the Cubans and the moguls and the public's whim...
...about them. A good gun has such lovely heft, a densely sinister weight in the hand. The brain is wired to the trigger finger and fires on impulse. The finger twitches, and -- blam! -- the life across a distance -- poof! -- disintegrates: an existence powdered. The finger did it on a whim. The desacralization of life, a society of emotional disconnection: killing is a kind of dream-sequence video. Conscience is disconnected from trigger finger. Child is disconnected from future. Bullet is ; disconnected from gun muzzle and, once fired, can never be recalled...
...report defines consensual sexual intercourse as rape by the male unless it occurs with "the expressed consent of the person" who is his partner. "Expressed consent" should not be confused with consent; it requires verbalizations or actions definable at the whim of the Ad Board. The expressed consent requirement restricts the freedom of choice for couples in long-term sexual relationships, who know the intimate preferences of their partners and are thus able to engage in sexual intercourse without discussing beforehand what types of acts they will perform. For example, the proposed rule would have branded a former hallmate...
First, consider the consequentialist argument, which is rooted in the knowledge that closed-door trials are Stalinist stuff. Abuses of justice breed easily when nobody knows that the judges are doing. Keeping trials open and public does not ensure that convictions and acquittals will not be based on arbitrary whim. Without reporting on courtroom activities, the guardians of justice are themselves unguarded...