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...professors profiled here were merely accused of wrongdoing, and as is usually the case with sticky situations, no one knows for sure what really happened in many of the scandals we recount. All we remember, and indeed, all we care to remember, is that controversy was stirred, stones were cast, and accusations were made. Whether it was fair or not matters little when it comes to reputation, and these professors all had wounds to lick when their time in the hot lights expired. This is the story of the licking, and it is a stone cast in the name...
...movie and the show is also the contrast between English diffidence and the American craving for acceptance. Idle, who had lived in Los Angeles for a decade when he did the show, has a bit in which the Lady of the Lake (fabulous Sara Ramirez in the original cast) leads her Laker Girls in a sideline chant: "Who's the king? U.R.! / A.R.T.H.U.R.!" That's symptomatic of the whole show, which struts, leaps, implores and seduces its audience, cheerleader-style...
...only children, Peggy and Shanti won't be objects of curiosity at school. But they are of interest to psychologists, who wonder how the swelling ranks of children growing up without brothers and sisters will develop. Decades of expert advice cast these singletons as problem citizens - solipsists with difficulty forming relationships. Now the balance of scientific opinion is swinging away from that idea. Professor Toni Falbo of the University of Texas has researched the subject for 30 years and, she says, found no disadvantages to children without siblings. That's because what counts is not a traditional family structure...
...Imperial Influence Re "Japan's Mystery of Majesty" [Sept. 4]: It is ridiculous to cast the Imperial Household Agency as a shadowy and mighty institution that dictates the behavior of the Japanese royal family. It is only a minor government department. The royal family is more reserved than its European counterparts because Japan does not want a colorful monarchy like the one the British have. Moreover, the bond between the Emperor and the people of Japan is far stronger and more deeply rooted than your story suggested. The imperial house lost political power to the warrior class centuries...
...story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis. Paul Lai Longwood, Florida...