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WASHINGTON-Private economists generally agree that a mild recovery is imminent, based on a government report that its main economic harometer has risen for the sixth time in the last seven months...
Bernardin is greatly respected by his fellow American bishops, in part for his ability to work out compromises on controversial issues. Soft-spoken and mild-mannered, he has a knack of achieving his goals without causing commotion or rancor. Says a top Catholic clergyman, in admiration: "When Bernardin makes waves, they're always smooth waves...
...toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough to be heard across Johnson City. He seemed, as Caro puts it, "to be going out of his way to reinforce the impression of his father's brutality." Then, as he did later in life, Johnson also exaggerated reports of his father...
...HEARS A LOT these days--may be one always has--about the mild psychological disorder, the discomfort with atavistic overtones, referred to as Jewish guilt Saddled with the stereotypes of the Jewish Mother and the Jewish American Princess. Jews in America are almost expected to feel ambivalent about their heritage. On the one hand, there is the insecurity of knowing what happened to one's roots in Poland or Russia or Germany. On the other is the desire to take full advantage of a wondrous new world--thus breaking the last link in an ancestral chain--to produce the strange...
...disagree because society must decide through the criminal law what is morally tolerable and what is not, Killing or seriously wounding in self-defense may well be morally tolerable: killing or seriously wounding in response to mild or severe mental illness, religious fanaticism, economic disadvantage, sociological anomie, philosophical existentialism, radical politics, literary accomplishment, or infatuation ought...