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Thanks to the unfortunate exigencies of newspaper deadlines, this column is a time capsule written in the blistering anxiety of pre-election agitation and flung into a dangerous and uncertain post-election future. But I already feel safe drawing at least one conclusion from this nasty and brutish if not-so-short presidential campaign: It has incontrovertibly demonstrated the impotence of our current campaign finance legislation...
...situation in Darfur reminded me of the lawless state of nature described by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in which life is "nasty, brutish and short." If urgent steps are not taken by the Sudanese government and the international community to end the Darfur atrocities, the fighting may extend to the neighboring East African region and further deteriorate the existing socioeconomic and political problems of the entire African continent. Okeke Jide Martyns Bradford, England...
...year-old baby boy being tossed up in the air and shot? Please, U.N. members, unite and help the Africans now. Stanley Washynton Zurich The situation in Darfur reminded me of the lawless state of nature described by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in which life is "nasty, brutish and short." If urgent steps are not taken by the Sudanese government and the international community to end the Darfur atrocities, the fighting may extend to the neighboring East African region and further deteriorate the existing socioeconomic and political problems of the entire African continent. Okeke Jide Martyns Bradford, England The killings...
...that's almost certainly the way it was during 99.9% of human evolution. For most of the 7 million years or so since we parted ways with chimps, life has been very harsh--"nasty, brutish and short," in Thomas Hobbes' memorable phrase. The average life expectancy was probably well under 30. But much of that dismal brevity can be chalked up to accidents, infections, traumatic childbirth and unfortunate encounters with saber-toothed cats and other such predators. If a Cro-Magnon, say, could get past these formidable obstacles, he might conceivably live into his 60s or even longer, with none...
...sharp contrast to Weinstein's brutish antics, Sundance founder Robert Redford's influence over the indie world is portrayed as Zen-like, though the actor's enigmatic, elusive nature keeps him mostly in shadows throughout the book. (Unlike Weinstein, Redford refused to talk to Biskind.) Still, Redford emerges long enough to double-cross his former protege, Steven Soderbergh, whose sex, lies, and videotape was shown in Park City in 1989, by plucking the movie Quiz Show out from under him. Redford sabotages his own efforts to launch a Sundance Cinemas chain by hooking up with a financially unstable partner...