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...been resisted by Socialist colleagues. Change, he says, will be painful. "But if we do what is necessary, we'll come out of this stronger and much more viable." There's no intrinsic flaw in the Greek character, he argues. "It's not in our DNA, it's not even in our cultural DNA, to have these problems...
...Sins of the Fathers" implies that if Catholic priests were free to marry, it would solve the problem of pedophilia--which the medical community has determined is an incurable illness [March 29]. Pedophiles exist in all walks of life, yet Catholic priests get the headlines, even though just a tiny percentage have committed this shameful offense. Choosing to live the vow of chastity is a gift of one's total self to God and has no relevance whatsoever to pedophilia...
...mail during our talk, but I also looked at Twitter, Facebook and the New York Times. "I did too," he said. "I saw my phone beep, and I said, 'I wonder what that's all about.'" When I asked him what it was about, he said he couldn't even remember. I had been outdueled in a game of phone ADD. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...
...time we got there, Cassandra's friends had already left. "Joel, this is your fault," Cassandra said many, many times. At 11:22 p.m., just four hours into our experiment, she turned on her phone and started mad texting. I could tell that we were not going to light even one candle...
...what we so often do with Matisse? We rush to indulge in the pleasures his art provides without coming to grips with its complexities. Compared with the Cubist-period work of his near contemporary Picasso - one picture after another that can be like a cheese grater for the eyes - even the most recondite Matisse is pretty beguiling. All those canvases flush with rose pink and aqua, filled with dancers and flowers and fruit - it's hard to look at them and remember the tough-minded choices that went into them. (See pictures of Matisse...