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...Bonfante, the story had a nostalgic resonance. Bonfante was assigned to Rome in 1978 when, he remembers, "I covered three Popes in a single year: Paul VI, who died in August; John Paul I, who lived only 34 days; and John Paul II, the current Pontiff. I came to regard the Vatican as a second country we had to cover on a daily basis." For this story, he talked to leaders of the public debate. He then went to local churches and found the discussion in the pews just as intense...
What makes some children finally snap? "They don't pay as you go with regard to aggression," observes Detroit psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay. "You might think they're passive, but they're also explosive." Many parricides occur when the child is on the cusp of independence, about to break away from a parent's domination. Sometimes the killing is triggered by a desire to protect the other parent or siblings...
Whether I like Harvard or not, then, really isn't too relevant anymore. I've long resisted the attitude, but now I've learned to regard Harvard much in the way you do an airplane that gets you where you want to go. I'm grateful and certainly respectful of the plane, but it is where I'm going that claims my emotions rather than the means by which I get there. Harvard is a place more concerned with the mechanics of the engine than in the existential significance of the journey. I've learned to look for the kinds...
...have to be committed and accept responsibility for ourselves," said Shabazz, who teaches at Medgar Evers College. "Then [we must] help others without regard to ethnicity...
Though hardly saintly in this regard, George Bush was not off base in charging that Clinton's tendency to waffle on tough issues was worrisome. The Democratic candidate talked only vaguely about "challenges," while avoiding any mention of sacrifice, and his economic program was a no-pain pastiche that involved taxing only the rich and foreign corporations. The resulting doubts about his trustworthiness produced enough near death experiences for his campaign to serve as warning that being all things to all people will not work...