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...Ashcroft and the Second Amendment John Ashcroft's letter to the National Rifle Association saying that the Constitution protects individual gun ownership rights prompted a frantic call from a U.S. Attorney's office in Texas to Department of Justice headquarters at 10th & Pennsylvania. The Attorney General's position isn't in sync with court rulings over the last six decades, including a 1939 Supreme Court decision, holding that the Second Amendment right applies to the states, rather than individuals...
...wondered what the sex meant, anyway. Frantic, pointless activity. The rest of us sometimes feel that way about the news. We have indulged too long in promiscuities of information. They have made us tired. Dr. Seuss once wrote something called "The Sleep Book." It starts: "The news just came in from the Castle of Keck/ that a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck/ is snoring so loud you can look down his neck./ This may not seem very important, I know,/ but it is, so I'm bothering telling you so." There ensued pages and pages...
When I stepped off the T, the mouth of Symphony Hall was a mess of smiling, politely frantic people, all trying to make sure they were included in the magic that was about to take place inside the hall. Magic it was. Five women and a sign language interpreter came dancing onto the stage, decked out in bright colours and African dress, and immediately the audience was spellbound by Sweet Honey in the Rock. The sight of the black female a cappella singers dancing beneath the statues of the dead naked white men from long ago that decorate the hall...
Here's another peculiarity: this ritual of relaxation is cresting at a cultural moment when noise and agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. America is running in place, in the spa or at work. And after Letterman and Clinton, nobody takes the world seriously; everything is up for laughs...
...Spirit's hand will have been steered by that of John Paul II. Sadly, the 1 billion followers of the Roman Catholic faith are not represented; they just follow. My impression is that the Cardinals have invested their lives in climbing the lofty hierarchy of the church in a frantic search for power. This is reinforced by the fact that your article says nothing about the spiritual and social values of the church. PAOLO SINIGAGLIA St. Blaise, Switzerland...