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...testing are visible in many sports. Anyone who claims that baseball is boring lacks an understanding of this side of athletics. When Andruw Jones dives to make a spectacular grab in center field, the drama of the individual catch transcends the immediate circumstances of the play. Even the most devout Met fan has to express approval after such a catch because--if only for a second--the score that matters isn't Mets 3, Braves 2. It's Man 1, Limitations 0. The athlete has surprised himself and enchanted...
...know (lest the howls of outrage rise) that some people cannot, and should not, imbibe alcohol. People with alcoholism in the family, devout Baptists and pious Muslims, diabetics and schizophrenics and several of my more, um, belligerent friends--for these folks and others, my solution to the Harvard blues is out of bounds. And of course, of course it isn't a good idea to be a blithering idiot and drink yourself into a stupor and end up at UHS, any more than it's a good idea to go skinny-dipping in shark-infested waters or eat those...
...does the legal protection derived from so-called individual "freedom of religion" cover these injuries the devout inflict on others - including family members incapable of making informed consent? In all but four states (Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska and North Carolina) parents can use their religious ideology as a shield against prosecution for withholding medical treatment from their children...
...Gramscian campaign, noodling themes of class warfare and identity politics, speaking on the veiled premise that society is divided between oppressors and oppressed, between bloated white Republican clubmen and a rainbow coalition of everyone else. Oddly enough, Gore's running mate, Joe Lieberman, had been on record as a devout Tocquevillian, on the side of religion, morality, patriotism and the American exceptionalism - the United Colors of Bill Bennett. Or at least he was Tocquevillian until Gore telephoned. Lieberman sold a few of his principles down the river to run with the Gramscians...
...BLUE] Paul O'Neill TREASURY SECRETARY Open-minded and pragmatic, Alcoa's former chairman is not a devout supply-sider. He once supported higher gas taxes, and has good relations with labor...