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Two years later, Shaw and his wife Stephanie still wonder whether they could have done anything to save their child. Doctors assured them that they were blameless, since no one knows what causes otherwise healthy babies to stop breathing -- although everything from viral infections to secondhand smoke has been implicated...
No U.S. blandishments will keep Pyongyang honest -- even if it remains formally in the nonproliferation pact -- if its real intent is to free itself from international oversight while it pursues its nuclear dream. North Korea may have temporized to forestall U.N. economic sanctions that loomed if it became the first...
No surprise for a world champion debater, Kennedy is particular about his distinctions. What he takes from Catholicism, he insists, is purely personal. He doesn't let the Church determine his views about things political or public--matters that can be "subjected to rational debate," as he puts it.
But the Lampoon isn't Kennedyesque for other reasons. Most glaringly, it doesn't seem to mesh with Kennedy's focus on "rational discussion." The Lampoon is almost as well known for its drug-infested bashes as for its publications.
For the old, pre-'68 left, the goal was socialism, meaning a new, more rational system of authority. The mad vagaries of the market would be replaced by the sober deliberations of experts; dedicated, responsible cadres would take over from the CEOs. But if there was one theme that united...