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...gave me great pleasure to translate Beowulf [with] Ulster linguistic finger prints on it," the Irish poet added...
...into surgery in an hour; it was the nurses who called and put aside their work to gather around the incubator. Weiler can't pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby's forehead. "I baptize you, Christopher, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." And they say a prayer...
...prospect of impeachment. The risk lies, rather, in something that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if his intense, fleeting sincerity--his shoeshine and his smile, or his wagging finger, or sidelong laser glance, or his bitten lip: his sheer performance--were sufficient. We are headed into historical country where they are not. And they never were...
Like many Americans, I'm relatively untroubled by President Clinton's sexual transgressions and attempts to keep them private. Adultery and deceit go hand in hand. What does trouble me about Clinton's lies is that when he shook his finger at me and said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he was so damn convincing. Nixon's Oval Office offenses and subsequent prevarications were a thousandfold more reprehensible, but I could always take comfort in his transparency. Slick Willie snookered most of us. MARTIN BLINDER San Anselmo, Calif...
...about empathy. Women in distress are especially troubling to him. His mother was found to have lung cancer in 1984 and got radiation treatments. When the disease returned in 1988, "when it was hopeless," she fled back to the Southern Baptist roots of her childhood. The hellfire sermons and finger-pointing bothered the 15-year-old Michael, but he felt they might be worth it if God cured her. One morning, "at about 2:45," her coughing was loud enough to wake him. His father told him "it was nothing"--that he would just take Michael's mother...