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When Dorothy Stimson Bullitt of Seattle started King Broadcasting in 1946, she bankrolled the venture with her family's lumber fortune. Now the radio-and-TV empire is worth as much as $650 million, and her daughters want to put the wealth back where it came from: the environment. Harriett Stimson Bullitt, 65, and Priscilla Bullitt Collins, 69, said last week they will place the family- owned company up for sale to raise money to protect the Northwest's natural beauty. Their empire includes six television stations, six radio stations and 13 cable-TV systems...
Wilson gives a definition of altruism linked to a theory of kin selection. Simply put, the closer the genetic similarity between organisms, the greater the altruism. Admittedly, altruism is far more predictable in ants than in human beings, who lapse into fratricide and civil wars...
...does. But I understand American politics. I put all that behind...
...problem with people who keep raising the cry of "racism" is that they would have us see everything in terms of race. They treat minorities as emblems, and everyone as typecast. And in suggesting that a white cannot put himself in the shoes, or soul, of a half-white, or a black, they would impose on us the most stifling form of apartheid, condemning us all to a hopeless rift of mutual incomprehension. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to a litigious nation's equivalent of the tribal vendetta: You did my people wrong, so now I am entitled...
...have no choice but to cancel Miss Saigon." Gone, for the moment, were the other Saigon roles that would have employed 29 Asian and Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss Saigon was becoming a no-win war with a high body count. And each combatant was ready to cut off his nose to spite his race...