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...also notes that sermons in backwoods churches still concentrate heavily on sins of the flesh-to the point that the message sometimes seems to be more "How to do it" than "Thou shalt not." An evangelist in North Carolina told Caldwell that before his "conversion" he had been a chronic womanizer; past wrongdoings were now an asset, he added, since in his sermons "I always start off talking about the sins I know about firsthand, because people want to know if their sins are about the same or different than mine." Caldwell also notes that many devout Southerners still cannot...
...used in transactions. Dollars are supplied to the international economy only when the U.S. has a balance-of-payments deficit, which means that U.S. deficits must provide the lubricant for international trade. Thus the inherent contradiction in the present system: U.S. deficits are essential to expanding trade, but a chronic deficit causes loss of confidence in the dollar, which must be restored by reducing the deficit--which serves to check expansion of international trade...
Some time after he left McLean, he said, he once more became unable to cope with Harvard and was sent at his request--"Because I knew I could leave it anytime I wanted"--to Boston State Hospital, an institution in which extremely disturbed and chronic patients are kept in custody. "I was put in a bedroom with 16 other men," he said, "screaming and urinating all over the place. I stayed in the hall and told the black attendant spook stories. . . ." He became more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement...
...reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word...
...Cliffies' chronic lack of interest in student government is already hobbling RUS. Like all its predecessors, it is having trouble recruiting people to run as representatives. "Most of the students who come here were very active in high school," explains Judy Mumma '69, the former president of East House. "When they come here they just aren't interested in this stuff any more. Cliffies feel it's high-schoolish...