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...don’t think that because people happen to be Nobel laureates that they have any more political wisdom than other citizens,” Herschbach said. “And yet you do feel that you have the responsibility to speak out when you have the opportunity...
...stamp of God's approval and that God is always on his side," says ethicist Cromartie. "I think people want their Presidents to be pious but not self-righteously so. So there's a paradox, isn't there? A President has to seem to be relying on God's wisdom but not acting like all his decisions are God's decisions." It's the difference between praying that you're right and believing that prayer makes you right. The risk, for anybody, is in conscripting God so that policy becomes inarguable. In his eulogy for his father last week...
Conventional wisdom has it that video games based on movies are supposed to be lousy, but The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Xbox; $50) might just be better than the movies (Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick) it was spun off from. In Butcher Bay, the bald, bass-voiced badass Riddick has just been locked up in a high-security sci-fi slammer, and he's hell-bent on shivving and shooting his way out of it. Game play is a tasty mix of hand-to-hand fighting and gunplay, relieved by some smartly scripted role playing...
Nader has apparently picked up some political pointers from Bush, the man who insists on "staying the course" despite mounting evidence contradicting the wisdom of his agenda. Nader, despite polls that show he is drawing more votes from Kerry than from Bush, insists he wants to oust the President. With friends like Nader, the progressive movement doesn't need enemies. RANDY POPLOCK Seattle...
...familiarity. Reagan had this domesticated appeal--bred in him, perhaps, but also hammered into him by all those roles in which he essentially played the sensible master of ceremonies to a cast of more gifted or committed actors. This steadiness, combined with a voice suggesting unforced manliness and homespun wisdom, made him a welcome, authoritative TV figure and a superb politician...