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Sadly enough, I don't think many of the experiences I had this summer would have had as instant or lasting an impact during the school year as they did. Living in Cambridge--outside of the school term bustle--encouraged a redefinition of the environment surrounding Harvard. In student mode, I often find myself not only isolated in the college bubble but confined to a rigidly proportioned schedule. Lately I've realized how absolutely unappreciative I am of the inconsistencies in life that make the scenery so interesting...
Clinton's sober and, at times, tearful mood began to lift and approach the ebullient mode when he began shaking hands along a rope line in Omagh. The crowds, laughing and smiling, chanted, "We want Bill! We want Bill!" By the time he spoke in the ancient cathedral town of Armagh, the President was nearly back to his familiar, self-confident form. "Never underestimate the impact you can have on the world," Clinton said. "Thank you for the springtime of hope you have given the world. Thank you for reminding us of one of life's most important lessons--that...
Bell reasons that what those boys are alleged to have done may not necessarily be so abnormal. "This could have been some real innocent stuff. Kids throw rocks all the time. But the other issue is these kids could have been in a youthful predatory mode; kids who have been preyed upon before, victimized before, sometimes act that behavior out," he says. Of their apparent sexual assault on Harris, he says, "Kids at the age of seven and eight are forever doing little kinky, polymorphously perverse things--voyeurism, exhibitionism, cross dressing, anal and oral experimentation...
There is something to be said for Clinton's playing the race and religion card, in a modified Swaggart mode. Risky, but consider: Clinton appears on TV flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Billy Graham, the reverends arranged like pastoral bookends in full supportive body English. Clinton, voice husky, sincere, speaks to the camera about the weekend of soul searching he has just spent with Jesse and Billy; speaks about his brother's drug addiction and about (here goes) his own long troublesome addiction, which is sex; subtly blames his childhood, the alcoholic home; implies the sins...
Morphing into Barbara Walters mode, I interviewed the man of the hour. I asked him if fixing garages were his summer or permanent employment; it turned out to be permanent and he, the company owner's son. I asked if he had a lot of business, did peoples' garage doors really break so frequently? Yes, it turns out that klutzes and shlamazels comprise a large portion of the local population...