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Clinton is a movie buff, a decent Hearts player and an avid reader. The Rhodes Scholar also has a decent memory, Bronfman said...
Columbia, meanwhile, was hyped up in the national rankings last September but faltered to a 9-8 record, so the Lions might break out this year. Dartmouth fielded a decent team, while Yale and Penn finished tied for last but aren't pushovers...
Dole seems to be a decent, caring, hardworking man. We should all have his perseverance. Will he win in November? Probably not. It's not very often that a nice guy finishes first. CHRIS GRAVES Manakin-Sabot, Virginia Via E-mail
TIME calls them "barely visible blobs of protein." The fertility clinic calls them "living cells." A Roman Catholic Cardinal calls for a "decent burial." The Vatican newspaper calls it "a prenatal massacre." The parents who created these embryos don't call to claim them. The whole situation calls for a rational definition of the word human. And until we can settle on this, I call it nonsense. JOHN BRODSKY, M.D. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania...
Your coverage of events surrounding the crash of TWA Flight 800 [SPECIAL REPORT, July 29] was particularly sensitive and sincere--an impressive achievement in contrast to the sensationalism with which such tragedies are often greeted. The ability of witnesses to sympathize is something so nobly human, so inherently decent and moral, that it inspires and uplifts. A woman described her feelings as "very sad. Sad for the people, for the families." In the wake of the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings, it seems that terrorism's vulture has found new carrion. It is a mark of the times...