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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (27114)	8/24/2006 6:19:22 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541559

If the Oscars are not a competition and the comparison of performances is like comparing apples to oranges, how do they decide to whom the Oscar should "go"?? Sorry, Mary, but I think it's a laughable effort to sanitize the notion of competition, while everyone involved knows that it IS a competition for very big bucks. It's intellectual dishonesty and PCism of the worst order. As for children, I'm certainly not advocating a "dog eat dog" structure. However, removing any competition, opportunity to win, or ramifications for failure does a disservice to children, unless you 've figured out a way to keep up the fiction for the balance of their lives. The real world doesn't work that way.