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...doubled in Dubner's case: his Jewish-born parents embraced a fervent Catholicism; decades later Dubner made the same trip in reverse. He capitalizes neatly on the humor, pain and mystery implicit when a father breaks into the song My Yiddische Mama between rosaries only to have his altar-boy son later edit the writings of the Lubavitcher rebbe; and on the "dead parents and overbearing parents...the fears of emptiness and the hopes of bounty" that inform such God-wrestling. So generous and natural a memoirist is Dubner, however, that awareness of his book's formidable double motor recedes...
...course, my remarks will fall on mostly unreceptive ears, as the devotees of multiculturalism exhibit a religious devotion. They are prepared to sacrifice the integrity of anything and everything on the almighty altar of Diversity, blind not only to objection but even to the most reasonable calls to mere reflection and restraint. It is therefore not surprising that no one at Tuesday's Faculty meeting saw fit to offer a substantive reply to Mansfield's complaints. It is easier for those secure in their enlightenment to simply stand silently aghast at the ignorant in their midst, especially when...
Chain's death in a skirmish to save a 40-ft. redwood was murder, plain, pure and simple. A compassionate person was sacrificed at the altar of human greed. What incredible arrogance and ignorance. But these two qualities do seem to go hand in hand, don't they? CAROLYN AND DAVE CANOY Salem...
...local sailor. The only survivor of a doomed ship, she was nursed back to health by her rescuer. They fell in love and married. Such romances and heartening miracles are woven into the visions of the village. At St. John's Anglican Church, two paintings that frame the altar serve as fonts of meditation: in one, a fisherman clinging to a tattered sail searches for a lighthouse amid a storm; in the other, Christ walks on the waters not of the Sea of Galilee but of Peggy's Cove. Thus when a plane--not a ship--went down...
...recorded an album of hymns, although he says he doesn't go crooning religious songs along the Potomac, as his good friend Ken Starr does. But that's one of the few ways in which he diverges from the independent counsel. As one of the frequent communicants at the altar of the Sunday-morning talk shows, Hatch has made it his mission to defend the judge. He's the James Carville of the right on the subject...