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It's more self-interest, I admit, than enlightened gender consciousness. Elevating physical attractiveness above all other virtues can have pernicious effects. You run the risk of marrying a moron, and you'll wind up bored out of your skull when she (or he) begins to sag.

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: My Hillary Factor | 11/17/1992 | See Source »

Make no mistake: his remains the old reformist faith. But he knows, as his illustrious forebears forgot, that reform must leave no one out. Government by - the enlightened for the disadvantaged? No: by the people, for the people.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pretty Good Society | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

Hey, look! there's the Buddha!" She was right, in a sense. Amid the dead and dying leaves by the roadside, a portly mini-Enlightened One, clad in sheets and made of stone, sat on a rock. But, then again, she could have been referring to the rock, or the...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

I became creative in my concentration: picturing a lotus flower floating on the water--away on the inhale, back on the exhale--and, crowned by white Enlightened petals, the number of the breath. I actually cleared my mind of the deadlines and the thoughts that pressed to the forefront; Harvard...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

In such an enlightened vein, my English accomplice (an expert in matters thespian) and I trekked through the wilds of Brattle Street to see some play called Medea. By a Greek apparently, and a rather old one--or so I was led to believe.

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

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