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Helen Schulman has proved once again the incredible selfishness of human beings who claim they want to be parents, but only if they are parents of their own biological children [BOOK EXCERPT, May 18]. I believe she truly mourns the loss of the babies that were spontaneously aborted, but what of the child whose parents "spontaneously abort" their role as caregiver? With the world as overpopulated as it is, could Schulman not parent one of those children? After all, she herself said, "The person I saw myself as was a person who took care of a child." Not just...
...then I flipped to another card, with an excerpt from one often classed among the original post-modernists. Nietzsche's words leap up at me: "Without forgetting, it is quite impossible to live at all." Usually, Commencement is associated with memory--from old relatives who enjoin us to remember our good ole' college days to close friends we're urged never to forget...
...FRESH TESTAMENT For those unfamiliar with new pop music, here is an excerpt from Blood Spilla, a Christian hip-hop song by William Branch...
...someone who wasn't used to the traditional all-American spring break. I remember standing with my friend looking over the balcony of a place called "The Zoo," watching everyone below bumping and grinding as lights flashed and smoke was injected onto the dance floor. I felt like an excerpt from an MTV Spring Break '98 Special, but it was a nice change. My biggest concerns for most of that week were whether the DJ would play the rap version of "Staying Alive" and whether I was tanning evenly...