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...nothing if the person born with the potential for excellence doesn't find the right environment and blossom in it. A scientific genius who's beaten as a child might become a mad genius. An artist who's introduced to alcohol when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler...
...setbacks befell the celebration but were well withstood. Our Olde Town Trolley driver, who found trouble finding her way out of the Square and then confidently dropped us off in front of the Radisson Hotel, drew a few rude comments from drunk first-years...
...strolled up to me," Kim said. "It looked like they might have been drunk. I recognized that it was a bad situation...
...throttling a naked woman. The witness called 911, and when a police officer arrived at the door, he was met by an apparition. Lawrence Singleton, says a neighbor, "came out of the house staggering. His shirt was unbuttoned, and he had blood all over his chest." Apparently drunk, he announced that he had cut himself chopping vegetables. But when he moved casually to answer a ringing phone, the cop saw a bloodied, naked corpse on his living-room floor. After his arrest, Singleton, 69, declared to reporters, "They framed me the first time. But this time...
...this all the time--they're called laws. The logic here seems to say, 'don't like abortion? Then don't have one.' If we extend this line of logic, we would find ourselves saying, 'Don't like murder? Then don't murder anyone,' or 'don't like drunk driving? Then don't drive drunk.' It's not sufficient that I myself don't drink and drive, the government should make laws that prevent others from drinking and driving. If we know that abortion is morally wrong, then it is not sufficient to rely on individual choice. The government should...