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This rural part of central Pennsylvania is one of the few places I've visited where a strong social fabric continues to bind a community together. Women walk their children through town and say "hi" to everyone they meet. Men gather in the evening on a porch and talk. Children ride their bicycles up and down the dirt roads. Though I can not accept their values, I envy their sense of community. And I can thank them for letting me--briefly--into their lives...
FAMILY: THE TIES DIDN'T BIND...
Educators are concerned that last week's decision will cut into their authority to control what takes place inside the schoolhouse. The ruling, they fear, could place many schools in a difficult bind: it could pressure them to open their doors to all kinds of advocacy groups -- contentious pro-life and pro-choice clubs, for example -- or force them to prune down the range of extracurricular activities and eliminate popular groups like drama clubs and community-service clubs. Either way, education may not necessarily come out the winner...
...ivory BMW") and her initial description of her middle-aged, open-married Manhattan heroine ("Clea Shawn was a sophisticated woman . . . she'd been in love so often that her heart felt like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse...
...concern for Israel's safety puts Jewish critics in a poignant bind. They agonize over how to make their feelings known without endangering Israel's strength, capitulating to anti-Semitism or giving demagogues in the Knesset an excuse to make the conduct of American Jews an issue in Israeli elections...