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Others shared the shopkeeper's concerns. There was a pair of Jerusalem grandmothers who told me they worried for their grandchildren, and their country. There was the young woman with sparkly earrings who said she felt the end of the world was coming. And even a hard-line city council member of a West Bank settlement said he was frightened...
...flourish without a single controlling vision at the top. Says Robert Kaiser, 47, who came in second to Downie in the race for Bradlee's spot and will become deputy managing editor in September: "Ben is the only editor in your time and mine who will appear in our grandchildren's history books. Life after Bradlee is daunting. It's hard to imagine operating without...
...whose cumulative, corrosive effect on Southern distinctiveness is obvious. But there is also the mass culture's relentless assault on the sense of context, continuity and community in the South no less than elsewhere. White Southerners of my generation were raised on the glories of the Lost Cause. Our grandchildren are raised on Saturday-morning cartoons...
...sense, everyone is to blame for the current dilemma. Says Jolene Unsoeld, a Congresswoman from Washington State: "It is the accumulated actions of all of us -- those of us who admire a beautiful wood-paneled wall, environmentalists who want their grandchildren to know the ancient forests, and those of us who come from generations of hardworking, hard-living loggers. We are all at fault, because all of us wanted the days of abundance to go on forever, but we didn't plan, and we didn't manage for that...
Fearing for the safety of their grandchildren, Joellene Adams and her husband left the barricade and drove into enemy territory. But as they pulled up to the home of their son Richard, he fired an automatic rifle at the car. Later that evening Richard telephoned with an apology: "Ma, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was you." Replied his mother: "Don't ever call me Ma again...