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...essay portion of the application, applicants describe a time they failed, as well as an instance where their values were challenged...
Clinton has disappointed me, Starr has angered me, Tripp has disgusted me, and Lewinsky has embarrassed me, but it took Charles Krauthammer to really tick me off [ESSAY, Sept. 28]. His commentary "Clinton's Pyrrhic Victory" implies that the two-thirds of the American public who support Clinton are mindless sheep, being pushed willy-nilly by pollsters and incapable of independent judgment. Bill Clinton has not somehow won me over with lies and manipulation; I never thought his personal character was without blemish. What he has done is the job we chose him to do, and overall he's done...
Regarding the first essay, "When Plagues End," Sullivan discussed his hypothesis that AIDS undermined heterosexual fears of gays and lesbians by promoting an image of gays and lesbians weakened by disease...
Sullivan also discussed the topic of his second essay, "Virtually Abnormal," which describes the ongoing debate about the causes of homosexuality. Sullivan said he is skeptical of, "simplistic genetic analysis...
...Love Were All," the book's final essay, Sullivan considers the notion of love in gay relationships which he says is too often overlooked in political and social discourse...