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...attempts to explain Ellis' intent and confront the inevitable controversy. "I don't think it's a novelist's job to give little moral lessons," says Ellis. But making moral judgments is precisely what he does, not only in the novel, with its hateful portrayals of Manhattan yuppies as mindless consumers, but elsewhere in the muddled handout that is intended to clarify his aesthetic. "The characters in all my novels are superficial," he writes. "They don't understand what's really going on in their own lives...
...rich and a capital gains tax cut. According to conservative theory, the richest Americans would not lose money as long as they increase their capital gains investments sufficiently. But the majority of House and Senate Republicans still refuse to make this compromise--primarily because their political careers rest on mindless and irresponsible "no new taxes" soundbites...
...curbed -- education is too important to be left to the educators. Nor can it be left to zealous amateurs more interested in "community rights" or minority cultural traditions than in effective education. We must also loosen the still strangling grasp of "progressive education." Curriculums must be purged of mindless courses. Teachers must be given more independence but also held to higher standards. Families must give early support to their children's education...
...students enrolled in "Plants" last year do comment that the course was notorious as a mindless way to receive credit for the Science B core, but they point out that the course was not in fact an easy...
...Robocop II--surprisingly--is a refreshing twist on this otherwise mindless genre. Like the original Robocop, its sequel is a dark, satirical commentary on contemporary society, artfully disguised as a Schwarzenegger technoblitz movie, of course...