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Well, what can you do but cry when you've devoted yourself to a candidate like Primary Colors' Jack Stanton--charming, idealistic in some ways, but more than a little slippery? That's the kind of presidential timber we've been getting in the movies lately. Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are. Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute...
...Wednesday?s New York Times report that state attorneys general have been meeting in secret to consider their own antitrust lawsuits. Throw in government investigations in Europe and a possible Senate hearing, and you have a similar scenario to the one that bled the tobacco giants. Did somebody say "timber...
DIED. SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, 88, British historian-philosopher of awesome erudition; in Oxford, England. The son of a Jewish timber merchant, Berlin became one of Oxford University's most eminent thinkers. His essays still dazzle, whether ruminating on determinism in Historical Inevitability, updating Mill in Two Concepts of Liberty or exploring Tolstoy's conflicted nature in The Hedgehog and the Fox. (See eulogy, below...
...College and--as the President told me and some 1,600 other recipients of the mass mailing--I did not know what was in store for me. So I decided to take the President up on at least one piece of his advice: read Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity...
...book, Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature (University of California; $45). At once a paean to serpents and an encyclopedic review of what's known and not known about them, the book argues that instead of hunting snakes down to near extinction, as we've done with the timber rattler--once glorified on the American Revolution's "Don't Tread on Me" flag--we ought to consider them "worthy of respect" and deserving of "a place in nature...