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...cannot even attempt to vision such a vagary. It is impossible. Jesse James Eye Dicks shot straight and to the point. And they never touched a woman, not to mention a girl. Romance indeed fades when the world has only neurotics for its brigands. And therein lies a lesson for the youth of today. If the world of tomorrow is to have creditable and esteemed handits it must have fewer of the uncertain and inadequate kind whose nerves disarm them of true restraint. Nerves in bandits and servants are without excuse...
...Williamson believes the team learned an important lesson in defeat...
...direct intervention ... However troubled they might be by the scale and ferocity of the slaughter, Western nations have offered little more than emotional expressions of sympathy for the victims. The American appetite for such missions, even in cases of dire human need, has been dulled by experiences like Somalia. "Lesson No. 1," President Clinton said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only 34% of respondents favored...
...direct intervention ... However troubled they might be by the scale and ferocity of the slaughter, Western nations have offered little more than emotional expressions of sympathy for the victims. The American appetite for such missions, even in cases of dire human need, has been dulled by experiences like Somalia. "Lesson No. 1," President Clinton said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only 34% of respondents favored...
Though Latter Days plays to art house audiences, its form is deeply conventional, almost doggedly so. But for its gay and Mormon trappings, it could take its place alongside mainstream romantic comedies, from its setup (pretty boy bets he can seduce the saintly Mormon) to its lesson of love-as-redemption...