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...think that Vice President George Bush was offending Hispanics when he called his three Mexican American grandchildren the "little brown ones" is highly unlikely...
Soviet educators worry that such skewed texts in history and other subjects may stifle creative thinking. Worse, the combination of bad books and ideologically rigid pedagogy may put Soviets at a competitive disadvantage in the world arena. "I'm ashamed to say it, but my grandchildren study more or less from the textbooks that I used as a child before the war," one man wrote to Pravda...
More and more, the remaining Ybor City cigar makers are bringing their grandchildren and great-grandchildren back to their old neighborhood for a look around or a day at one of the frequent festivals that celebrate the neighborhood's rich heritage. When they close their eyes and take a deep, long breath, they claim, they can still smell the sweet aroma of cigars...
Except when Helms is doting on his six grandchildren, he rarely relaxes. He types as many as 50 letters a week to friends and constituents, pecking with two fingers on an old Royal manual. To a woman fretting over her mother's ill health, Helms wrote that his own mother had believed in the curative powers of baked apples. In another letter he wrote of the gay-rights movement: "I view it as something of a nightmare that the Sodomites are so brazen . . . These obnoxious, repulsive people are anything...
...more freedom than a bedbug," insists one. "In this respect, Spinoza was right." Another tells how jealousy drove him crazy: "I now hated all women. Lifting my hands to heaven, I swore never to marry." The narrator asks, "Did you keep your word?" The laconic response: "I have six grandchildren." Singer's people seldom shy away from expounding on the mysteries of existence: "People often say that one cannot understand the ways of the Almighty. Yet the ways of human beings can be just as perplexing...