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...WHAT USEFUL PURPOSE does AWARE Week serve? None that I know of. It gives guilt-stricken white liberals a chance to attend rap sessions at which they can engage in a sort of Maoist ritual self-criticism and confess to committing sins they can't even specify, much less remember...
...culmination of human history, would begin between A.D. 1200 and 1260. William Miller, the Baptist layman who founded the Adventist movement in America, was sure that the Second Coming would take place on March 21, 1843, and then, after recalculating, on Oct. 22, 1844. (Miller had the grace to confess his errors when the deadlines passed; the movement survived...
IHAVE, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Good reasons exist for hoping that Smiley is wrong, although writers and readers of espionage thrillers may confess to mixed emotions on the matter. In the meantime, The Secret Pilgrim bridges a gap between the recent past and the unforeseeable future. No longer able, because of the innate honesty that has characterized his storytelling career, to offer a full-blown cold war drama, Le Carre pops out some discrete and satisfactorily chilling ice cubes...
...government expects 200 to 300 drug lords to take advantage of Gaviria's offer before Dec. 25. U.S. officials were less than jubilant. Under the terms of the decree, drug dealers are immune from extradition to the U.S. and not required to confess all their crimes. Depending on the Colombian courts, Ochoa could wind up serving less than 20 months in jail and possibly even go free...