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...amazed that your long article managed to avoid any mention of religion's role in support of morality. On that subject, a comment by former auxiliary Archbishop of Sydney Michael Sheehan is apt: "It may be objected that in many countries today large sections of the population either deny or ignore the existence of God and yet are well-behaved. We reply that these are people whose good habits have been derived from believing parents or from other Christian influences; that the momentum of Christianity by which they are now being carried along will inevitably spend itself in this...
...while Lame Duck Books, in the basement just below it, specializes in modern intellectual history. Both bookstores have a pretty pricy stock—Lame Duck has a rare photograph of Fyodor Dostoyevsky selling for $85,000—but it’s worth it to go into either one just to browse. Entering one of these stores feels like taking a trip to a museum, but instead of surly guards telling visitors to back off, friendly owners happily present the treasures from their troves...
Mitchell isn’t the only quirky personality in the Square. “Most people who own used bookstores are unemployable in the [conventional] sense, either eccentrics or anarchists or just loose cannons of sorts,” Petrovato said. “I guess I would be an anarchist. I don’t like to work for anybody.” But Raven Books has no political affiliation: “I have a lot of books that I don’t agree with politically, but these books need to be read...
...sure their singing would have run afoul of some federal aviation law.In fairness, I suppose that it’s possible for trains to have screwups too—I’m by no means arguing that they are perfect.Train tickets aren’t necessarily cheap either, though I usually save about 40 percent compared to airfare.Worse still, U.S. rail technology is simply pathetic compared to the high-speed rail that exists in virtually every other industrialized country. My train from Boston to Chicago averages about 46 miles per hour--52 miles per hour on the continuous, faster...
...Hoeilaart, at least, there is a sense that Belgium's two principal communities already lead separate lives. "We don't need the French. We could easily live separately," says Jean Paul Goosens, a retired builder. Jean Hennau, a veterinarian, doesn't see them coming together either: "Flanders and Wallonia don't talk to one another...