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...this is so far from being news that Rooney talked in the interview of an age-old understanding, "a tacit agreement among doctors" to do just that. And he asked Dr. Kevorkian, "Have you ruined that for them?" To which the doctor answered with stunning and quite startling humility: "I don't think so, but I might have...
...Simpson's dream world, which is as out of touch with the black community as it is with the white one. He seems to think most white people like him, despite polls that show they believe he got away with murder. Nor does he understand that ostracism is an age-old way of showing disapproval; Fatty Arbunkle, a much bigger star, saw his career collapse after he was acquitted of murdering a starlet. Some of Simpson's lawyers advised him to quietly reach out to black churches and ghetto youth programs to thank African Americans for supporting him during...
...clear how keeping the faith is even feasible for members of some traditions for whom Harvard has provided no adequate facilities. And the risks of sincere encounter between systems of meaning and value that have so often exploded in violence can seem too high--who wants to replay the age-old patterns of sectarian discord in a Yard rooming group or a sleepy section or a new romance...
...into the upwardly mobile, materialistic American mainstream is precisely what Pope John Paul II has been trying to reverse. He visits the U.S. this week not only as a charismatic and revered leader but as the living embodiment of central church authority, the person at the top of the age-old hierarchy. Many prayers will be said this week, by John Paul and by millions of devoted but independent-minded Catholics. The answers will take a while--and may not be to every supplicant's liking...
Sitting at the foot of a rabbi among a group of students, wearing his large, Knitted yarmulke on his head and looking at a Hebrew text of Talmud in his lap, Michal J. Geller '95 participates in the age-old Jewish custom of arguing...