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...feelings after formally being received into the church: "There was no joy in it at all, only a somber apprehension." Greene never took his religion lightly, and the Catholicism that would come to stamp his fiction served both as a stern gauge by which to measure the behavior of fallen mortals and as a powerful source of divine mercy...
...pull his forces together. For want of a better communications system, handwritten requests for supplies and assistance, scribbled on pieces of children's notepaper, were passed from soldier to soldier until they reached the chief. There was little opportunity to consider each message. Hearing news that Kirkuk had fallen to the Iraqis, Barzani waved off a request for an interview. Said an aide: "We can't hold the cities. We cannot deal with ground-to-ground missiles, helicopters, warplanes and heavy artillery. How can boys and old men stand up to the Republican Guard?" His advice: "Leave as quickly...
...loss to UNH--the team's second defeat of the season--was its first authentic really check. All dreamers were awoken; this season is not turning out to be an easy one. Harvard has fallen to 10th-place in the national polls behind three other Ivy League teams: Yale (sixth), Princeton (eighth) and Brown (ninth...
...majority of U.S. families, who kept up their spending by borrowing and relying on two incomes. Only the wealthiest 20% of Americans significantly increased their real income during the Reagan era, and the poor slipped further behind. After adjustment for inflation, the national standard of living has actually fallen since 1973; the real average hourly pay for U.S. workers has gone from $8.55 then to $7.54 today. Says Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution: "Americans are not becoming pessimistic. They are becoming realistic. It is right to think of cutting back...
According to Cantor, the stagnation of our generation will only end when we use the critical techniques of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to supersede the artificial (and ultimately harmful) euphoria to which our society has fallen prey...