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Self-pity is one ingredient in the black brew. Slivovitz, plum brandy, taken in great quantities, starting at breakfast time, is another; alcohol numbs the conscience and lubricates the trigger finger. The sacrament of slivovitz -- though some get there without it -- helps keep Serbs, both fighters and sideline supporters -- in that fourth dimension of tribal passion where heroic patriotism and great atrocity become equally possible. This is the dimension of tribal memory, drifting in time, across centuries. Grievances float through the dimension like ghosts, crying out for justice -- for the Serbs whom the Croats massacred during the Hitler years...
...reaction this morning was pretty horrible. It was an ugly moment," he said. "But, going to breakfast this morning, it was comforting to know that other people were actually in the Quad...
...contacts, good talk, wide range of friendships flourish when students live in a community and take their meals in the same dining room, not only with other undergraduates of different classes, types and early associations, but also with the tutors whom they may meet in off hours at breakfast, lunch or dinner...
...nonjudgmental counsel. Vaught, who died of bone cancer three years ago, helped Clinton reconcile the conflict between his pious instincts and his political ones on two major positions -- his defense of the death penalty and abortion rights. According to Vaught's son Carl, the Governor summoned the minister for breakfast one morning to discuss the morality of capital punishment. Vaught argued that in its Hebrew translation, the Sixth Commandment does not say one is never allowed to take the life of another; what it forbids is murder. From a sermon he delivered, Vaught also helped Clinton come to terms with...
Clinton's faith has occasionally been on display during the past year. He mentioned God occasionally in his campaign speeches and, whether in his Inaugural Address or at a prayer breakfast in Washington two months ago, has displayed his knowledge of Scripture. He shed a very public tear at the ceremony at Washington's A.M.E. Metropolitan Church on Inauguration morning while listening to a live performance of In the Presence of Jehovah...