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...title, Widowers' Houses, is a vicious twist on Mark 12:38: "Beware of the scribes...which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers...
...have something to do with the causes of this problem as long as we allow the vicious circle to repeat itself over and over again. Non-action simply means letting others act. We mustn't be fooled into believing that this is not our problem, nor that of Harvard...
...writing in response to Joe A. Acevedo's brainless condemnation of Sinead O'Connor ("Hairless Heathen Heckles High Priest," Oct. 20). I am not sure which I found more disturbing, his blind defense of the Catholic Church, or his vicious attacks on Sinead for expressing her beliefs. Both were riddled with factual half-truths and logical inconsistancies...
...days before the debate saw some of the most vicious attacks yet, as Bush questioned Clinton's patriotism while piously denying that he was doing so. The President wondered aloud why Clinton, who was then attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, went to Moscow in 1970 and whom he saw there. Clinton says he visited, for all of a week, "mostly as a tourist." The assault quickly backfired, and Bush stopped mentioning Moscow. On Sunday night, though, he persisted in attacking Clinton for helping organize demonstrations by Americans in London against the Vietnam War. Clinton, who had earlier quoted Bush...
...favorite film year, 1939, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was condemned by many U.S. Senators and editorial writers, and Gone with the Wind stoked a furor with its use of the word damn. Today, other tendencies in Golden Age movies -- the stereotyping of blacks, gays and other minorities -- seem vicious in retrospect. Back then, the middle class was in charge, and they made fun of those below. Now films are a minority pleasure, so the majority is the butt of harsh humor...