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...evils that visit us, none, I guess, is harder to bear than the death of a child. That's the malignity that is really motiveless - or hardest to understand...
...drinking age, knowing how controversial that would be. Meanwhile, on a number of campuses, administrators are employing what turns out to be a remarkably powerful tool to curb excessive drinking: simple information. When college students are asked how much drinking takes place on their campuses, they almost always guess too high. In a 1996 survey at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York, students said their peers were drinking five times a week. In truth, the answer was twice a week. In a different study, kids at 100 other campuses made similarly inflated estimates...
...ideas about things. As an only child, when my dad went to check on his farm in Ohio, I had nothing to do, so I imagined things. I stood in the barn and sang opera to the sheep. I made up all sorts of languages. I guess someone looking on might have predicted I would grow up to be funny. As a teenager, I spent three years training in classical piano until I realized I didn't have the talent to pursue music professionally. Then I wanted to become a stenographer so I could count on making money. My mother...
...right. Chipman, for example, deplores the downgrading of Chinese-U.S. military-to-military contacts in the wake of the EP-3 spy plane incident. When generals and admirals of a transparent democracy and a secretive, authoritarian regime get to know each other better, it's not hard to guess who gets the most from the exchange. The Bush Administration, Chipman argues, needs to handle China without "poking it in the face at every opportunity...
...course that of John Paul Stevens, who bought the government's line). In a 1998 case, Minnesota v. Carter, he wrote that "Security of the home must be guarded by the law in a world where privacy is diminished by enhanced surveillance and sophisticated communications systems." But guess how he ruled this week? With Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist - and for law enforcement's newfangled evidence-gathering gizmos...