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...blessing in disguise," Loper sought a more meaningful career. He became first a classroom English teacher and later the head counselor at Chamblee High School, a magnet school outside Atlanta. He no longer has doubts about his present or his future. "When you can look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I helped a young person be a better human being today,' that is a great reward," he says...
...also hard to believe some producers' claims of high-minded purpose, as when executive producer Paul Romer calls Big Brother "a mirror to society." (Last we checked, society consisted of folks allowed to leave the house.) Scoffs Burnett, comparing Survivor with Multi-Millionaire: "There is a big difference between taking 16 adventurers to an island and 50 morons lining up to get married after meeting a stranger on TV." Of course, 23 million people watched Multi-Millionaire. He'd better hope there's not that much difference...
...When driving down a busy, traffic-clogged street, I am enraged when I pull up behind a slow-moving car driven by a woman who is applying makeup. She can't possibly have her eyes on the road or concentrate on driving while primping and preening in her rearview mirror...
...comparison is appropriate, for the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli dispute will mirror the aftermath of the superpower rivalry, writ small. Once again the dangers will shift from big bloody wars between states or their surrogates to a bunch of smaller but messier and more persistent conflicts within countries. But don't be fooled. The stakes will be just as high over the next quarter-century as they were in the last, for the new disorder won't dissipate until the political map of the Middle East has been redrawn...
...antigovernment politics of the coming decades (whereas the movie just shows that John Schneider and Tom Wopat need to fire their agents). Look at the Dukes' hot rod, the General Lee, with the Stars and Bars flying, and you can see Tom DeLay pulling up in the rearview mirror...