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Leahy began playing the what-if game. What if you were Secretary of State? What would you do? He expected her to beg off the question as impolitic at this moment. Instead Albright spent the next 20 minutes giving him her worldview, almost as if she were rehearsing her testimony for a confirmation hearing...
...grimness of this new Darwinian worldview has been stressed by the biologist George Williams, whose 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection laid its theoretical foundations. Rather like the World War II physicists who were horrified by the weapon they had invented, Williams blanches at the view of human nature and of natural selection that he helped usher in. "Mother Nature," he says, "is a wicked old witch...
Keyes is absolutely right. All laws, even the most innocuous and widely accepted ones, reflect a certain subjective worldview. All laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature. To say that human beings have a right to life that must be respected, or to say (as a utilitarian might) that we should recognize a right to life in order to maximize societal utility, is already to take a moral stance that does not lie beyond dispute...
...Cunning Man constructs marriages of science and religion, as well as literature and medicine, in keeping with the Canadian writer's synthetical, Platonic worldview, and Davies' long success at barking up the same trees is particularly easy to explain from the book: the man is a storyteller, and a fine one. Whether Robertson Davies is a great writer is a good question, but a better one is: does he tell a good story? The answer is quite clearly yes. He tells a good story and he tells it well, and we are the better...
...Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native Creativity," that the museum's full originality becomes clear. A walk-through, multimedia collaboration by 15 contemporary Indian artists, it is irreverent, sometimes heavy-handed and very of-the-moment. It ends with a meditation on the fate of the earth titled Worldview, dominated by a traditional burial scaffolding embedded with a parking meter permanently stuck on time expired and set up next to a video monitor screening images of war. Previous Indian museums, says director Richard West, "felt they were doing civilization and humanity a favor by saving material of people...