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...Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research bounces forward to greet a visitor. "I had two ideas last night," booms Mortimer Adler. This is not a man whose ideas run to trivia. His latest work, "We Hold These Truths" (Macmillan; $16.95), examines the U.S. Constitution, tracking the concept of "rightful authority" back to the Greek statesman Solon, then bringing it forward to culmination in the Constitution's codification of the world's first federal republic. The logic and progression is pure Adler, and the book's initial critical success surely comes as no surprise to the author, a man who recalls...
...Childhood obesity is epidemic in the United States," said Dr. William H. Dietz Jr. of New England Medical Center, a co-author of the study, which is being published in the May issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children. "The implications are that there is going to be a major rise in the prevalence of adult obesity and its consequences...
...following journal entries are all that could be translated from the brilliant yet cryptic texts that were recently found in the secret archives of the author who, we must sadly report, has committed ritual suicide to protest the unsightly green vomit that Harvard pours all over the yard each spring...
Actually, no wait a minute. Maybe. No, actually, yes. NO. MAYBE. YES. Three words. What did they mean when used as rhetorical bludgeons to render final verdicts on other words that came before or after them because of the manic tyrannical musings of the Hitlerian author...
...book is not a novel and is best read as a semi-fictionalized case study--though one made all the more intriguing by the author's self-conscious narration. Schumer's language is brisk and informative, and she successfully avoids turning sentiment into a soppy trip down memory lane. And a decade later, the reader gets the impression that the characters are ready to put it all behind them. "I never wanted to see [them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that...