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...Remember that, in 1931, the Wall Street crash had lately idled nearly a fifth of the work force and wonder that Ira Gershwin could have Wintergreen sing, in a perky love ballad, "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers, / Long as you've got a kiss that conquers?" The Senators are less discreet: "If you think you've got depression, / Wait until we get in session, / And you'll find out what depression really means!" The reporters care not about The Issues; they pepper the Prez with questions only about his love life. "We don't want to know about...
...Gehrys moved to Los Angeles, where he drove a truck for a couple of years (once delivering a kitchen suite to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who took a shine to the kid) and where he eventually enrolled at the USC architecture school. There he somehow managed to fail a basic course. In his early years he says he was more drawn to the company of the painters and sculptors leading the vibrant LA artistic scene than to his young architectural peers. Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel , even his psychiatrist, Milton Wexler, make appearances in what might be called supportive roles...
...hour Lamont and a successful lobbying campaign to make social programming a priority at the College. But the UC has shown disheartening shortsightedness when it comes to looking introspectively and setting up a UC framework which will ensure continued success, while preventing repeated failures. The UC has failed to restructure itself in the best interest of students every time it’s been given the opportunity to do so over the past year—first in its failure to pass direct elections, and now its perplexing efforts to maintain a third committee when there?...
...press investigations into the protection given to pedophile priests, your article will help the Roman Catholic Church cleanse itself of its secrecy as well as the flaw of gender-determined and gender-dominated leadership. So absorbed are the church leaders in promoting and protecting their agenda that they fail to fulfill their role in the truthful representation of Christ. Etta Albright Cresson, Pennsylvania, U.S. Your article on Opus Dei made plain the dangers of fanaticism and extremism within religious thought. God wants us to hate neither others nor ourselves. The cure for evil must come from God's transformation...
...other seniors, it is not the academics of high school that fail to captivate; it's the social environment. By the end of her junior year, Sarah Ferszt, 17, of Wakefield, R.I., had already been to four proms. When most of her friends graduated, she began cutting class and losing focus. "High school was torture," says Ferszt. "I'd grown out of it. For some people, senior year just doesn't make sense." Kevin Quinn, Ferszt's counselor at South Kingstown High School, helped make her final year more meaningful by directing Ferszt to a dual-enrollment program...