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These activities do constitute a kind of movement, but it is a spiritual one. The white-haired guru of this transformation is the poet Robert Bly, whose book Iron John has been on the best-seller list for more than seven months. Bly and his fellow wise men believe that since the Industrial Revolution, when fathers left the home to work in offices and factories, boys have been raised by women and co-opted by a female view of masculinity. Later, the women's movement came along, creating an epidemic of what Bly calls "soft males," men who lacked fierceness...
...minority, however wrongheaded from one's own point of view, we should learn to hear the echoes of men like Jefferson and Paine. They didn't goose-step to the tune of the reigning authority. They didn't shut up when more timid souls said it wasn't wise to speak. And suppose they had? Then the flag we'd be pinning to our lapels today would be the Union Jack...
...that prosecutors in death-penalty cases could introduce evidence about the character of the victim and the suffering caused by the crime -- thereby reversing a precedent that was only four years old. In his majority decision, Chief Justice William Rehnquist argued that while adhering to precedent "is usually the wise policy," it was not an inexorable command, especially when decisions were "unworkable or badly reasoned...
...garage business was a bonanza for the wise guys. The garage owners allegedly made payoffs to the Mob in exchange for being allowed to cheat employees out of as much as $70 million in lost wages and benefits. Cirino Salerno made weekly deliveries of cash skimmed from the local to his brother's East Harlem headquarters, according to a former top Genovese soldier, Vincent (Fish) Cafaro. In a 1987 affidavit, Cafaro, now a government witness, claimed that "Speed" had the garage industry "locked up through 'sweetheart contracts' with the owners . . . If someone buys or builds a garage or parking...
...time they have been out there expressing themselves, a posse has been relentlessly closing in on them. By a pleasing irony, it is led by the only thoroughly nice guy in the picture, detective Hal Slocumbe (Harvey Keitel). A patient, sympathetic man, he is this myth's wise father figure. By the time Thelma and Louise finally see him, however, he is one of a small army of cops who have hemmed them in against the top of a sheer canyon wall. Hal advances toward them, arms outstretched, in a last-minute plea for reason...