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...YORK'S IMMIGRATION officials gave my maternal great grandfather his name. "What kind of work will you do?" I can imagine an Ellis Island inspector asking him. "I can sew," my great grandfather probably answered in Yiddish. "A tailor. Alright, Morris. Stitch is your new American name." Henceforth the man would be known by his product. The confusions and contradictions of the arrival, the harrowing journey from the homeland, and the family still trapped on the Russian shtetl, anxiously waiting for word to come join him, were glibly ignored by this new alien world...
...various views of human nature may be, the very use of the term implies that there is something permanent and irreducible in man and that his resistance to outside manipulation is a kind of triumph. This does not defeat or dismiss the experts, but it does suggest that henceforth they may have to concentrate more on what is permanent in man than on what is changeable. Could it be (though this is not specifically said in the study) that this will have to include a return to the notion of good and evil, and therefore to the value of rules...
...Diet, where his Liberal Democrats hold a steadily shrinking majority, for striking a deal with the U.S. Government that seemed aimed at containing further revelations about the scandal. Opposition parties are particularly angry at two conditions Miki accepted. Information resulting from U.S. investigations of the Lockheed affair will henceforth be passed confidentially to Japanese law agencies, and no names will be revealed publicly unless sufficient evidence is found for indictments...
...reads a hand-printed sign in St. Paschal's Roman Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif. Similar notices have appeared-or soon will-in Catholic churches in the U.S. and round the world. They herald a quiet but significant revolution for Catholics, who will henceforth be allowed to choose between old-fashioned anonymous confession and the new face-to-face-style sacrament. While it will remain an option, as will the modified form of a screen set in an open room, the traditional cramped confessional box could gradually become a relic...
...committee did not consider Bell's claim, but by a unanimous vote decided that senatorial vanity was indeed exceeding the bounds of modesty. Henceforth, ruled the committee, the pronouns "I," "he" and "his," as well as "the Senator" or the word "Senator" followed by the officeholder's name, may occur no more than five times per page on franked newsletters...