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Smile because it is hard for him to fathom now the thought of having once carried a weapon--a switchblade--to school. Smile because today he will graduate from Harvard. Smile because he will marry his high school sweetheart, Maiysha Lennon, this summer. Smile because in September he will enter the Harvard Medical School Class...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: From the South Bronx To the Gates of Harvard | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...famous son's blooming genius. Looking back on his youth, she says, "He scared me! I didn't know anything about raising children--couldn't change a diaper--and it took a concerted effort just to get him past his infancy. Now he has dimensions I can't even fathom. Most people dream. Steven dreams; then he fulfills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

There is a solution to the intermarriage problem, and it's not the easy way out Dershowitz is looking for. It involves making Jews value their Jewish identity so much that they cannot even fathom the possibility of not marrying someone Jewish, that the prospect of their children being raised in a half-Jewish environment terrifies them. Jews should believe with all their heart that it's wrong NOT make the religion of a prospective spouse a crucial determining factor. Tammy A. Hepps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jews Should Only Marry Other Jews | 5/2/1997 | See Source »

...many of these men and women are entrusted with responsibility that few of us can possibly fathom. They are not looking for medals or glory, they are just doing their...

Author: By William P. Moynahan, | Title: The Misunderstood Military | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

...could he possibly see in her, we ask ourselves, watching the tawdrily dressed, flaky and obsequious woman on his arm (and unable, by definition, to see what he sees in her--and with her--when alone)? And one man's faith is no less impossible for a nonbeliever to fathom: in recent days, millions were celebrating the idea that a man actually rose from the dead, while another doubtless felt that he was committing a holy act that would gain him a place in heaven when he strapped a bomb to his body and entered a Tel Aviv restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR DAYS OF JUDGMENT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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