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...customary sins. We do our violent business as usual. Fish gotta swim. War is flourishing-between Iran and Iraq, between Israel and the P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since the bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality. We did not drop what we might have dropped onto Hanoi. By this reasoning...
April 26--In a surprise move, the 24 Black protesters voluntarily end Harvard's longest building occupation by leaving Mass Hall at 2:45 p.m. fists upraised. In a rally afterwards, they vow to continue to pressure Harvard to sell its Gulf holdings...
...easy 10, name the major league ball park with the longest distance from home plate to the centerfield wall...
Embarrassing first for the Greater Boston League, which sanctioned that so-called contest. Embarrassing for Pete. Varney, former Harvard star and major leaguer and now the first-year Brandeis coach, who suffered through the longest three-hour game he will ever watch...
Poverty is the current issue with the longest history in American Catholicism. The 1919 "Bishops' Program," well in advance of the New Deal, advocated a minimum wage, unemployment compensation and old-age insurance. But on foreign policy, Catholic bishops formed ranks behind whatever Administration was in power. "Being an immigrant church, we wanted to show we were more American than anyone," explains Father Cuchulain Moriarty, who runs San Francisco's archdiocesan social justice commission...