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...thousands of compulsive gamblers, the build-up to war in Iraq could not come at a better time. Going through high school with a degenerate gambler as a friend, I came to learn that the stretch between the Super Bowl and March Madness is the darkest period on the calendar because there are hardly any good sporting events...
...part of what made Mister Rogers' Neighborhood great and unique is that, for all its beautiful days in the neighborhood, it was also the darkest work of popular culture made for preschoolers since perhaps the Brothers Grimm. Mister Rogers was softer than anyone else in children's TV because so many of the messages he had to impart were harder. That your parents might someday decide not to live together anymore. That dogs and guppies and people all someday will die. That sometimes you will feel ashamed and other times you will be so mad you will want to bite...
...charitable toward the inspectors, it may be because the U.S. is counting on one issue to crack Saddam: Security Council Resolution 1441's requirement that he make key weapons workers available for questioning by the inspectors privately, even abroad, where the workers can be free to divulge the deepest, darkest secrets about Iraq's banned programs. "While we don't know what's been done, we do know who is doing it," says a senior U.S. official. "We just need to ask these guys to account for their time over the last four years...
...unconscious: he showed us that beneath the surface banality of everyday thoughts and gestures lurk subterranean caverns of forbidden longings that reach all the way back to our earliest childhood memories. Freud's therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis, was an intellectual exploration of those depths, where patients could confront their deepest, darkest desires. If they recognized and overcame those repressed desires, the theory went, they could return to the surface with a calmer, healthier mind...
...emerges from Pappin’s letter, which called on administrators to enforce “moral decency” at Harvard, is whether morality is absolute and who should set moral standards at Harvard. If those who would ferret out “bigotry” from the darkest recesses of our community have their way, we will never have common ground for discussing morality. Liberal opponents of Pappin will doubtless claim that they are moral relativists, tolerant of all belief systems, but in fact these petulant liberals are just moral absolutists who want their own way. What frightens...