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Hayworth, who says Rove may have been joking, contends that Bush's plan to confer temporary legal status on Mexicans working in the U.S. amounts to "false compassion." But Senator John McCain plans to push hard this winter for such a program. House Republican leaders say they might accept one...
The question arose, What about babies who died before they were baptized? The church father Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), applying more logic than compassion, said that without baptismal grace, they must go to hell. That proved too much for the theologians of the Middle Ages, who counterproposed limbo...
What a foursome the Berkmans are - on the tennis court, where mom, dad and the two boys play as fiercely as if this were a grudge match at the U.S. Open, or in their disintegrating home, where each pursues self-destruction with an anchorite?s intensity. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is...
Watch out. The compassion he brings to journalism could single-handedly save this paper’s so-called credibility crisis. At the very least, it will ensure this magazine’s high quality next year.
Nearly a decade ago, my parents came back from a trip with the music to the musical “Rent.” I was hooked. I quickly memorized the lyrics, the plot, the little quips between songs. When my parents came to Cambridge last week for Thanksgiving, we...