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...AIDS Quilt was a silent, wrenching reminder of a plague we cannot ignore. Seeing names of 37,000 victims stretched across 11 city blocks would help anybody identify with them as more than mere statistics. It also reminds us of the 99.9 percent of Americans who go to their grave without a quilt, victims of other diseases that deserve attention...
...beside me and was not suprised to see that he had spent the last 15 minutes constructing a happy face out of lower case i's. The banner message, addressed to his girlfriend, Julie, read "'Tis the east, and Julie is the sun." Shakespeare no doubt turned in his grave as my counterpart sent the epistle and then glanced at me doubtfully to ask if I thought the note was too long...
...pragmatic liberalism is that criminals must nonetheless be punished. Increasingly, pragmatic liberalism may have to deem moral sanction warranted in the same sense. Of course, reasonable liberals can disagree about whether our social ills are really that serious. But they shouldn't talk as if the illness is grave but the cure is painless...
American officials scurried to make sure Saddam did not misjudge the Western opposition to the Iraqi move. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said any Iraqi aggression would be "a matter of grave concern." Secretary of State Warren Christopher cut short a California vacation and rushed back to Washington. Meanwhile, from London and Paris came more warnings to Baghdad...
...parties [THE REPUBLICANS, Aug. 19]. Among the planks I looked at there was a statement arguing for campaign reform; a charge that certain tax-relief proposals were primarily for "those with the largest incomes"; a warning that the use of narcotics, especially the rise in heroin addiction, was a "grave peril to America"; and criticism about the delays in our legal system. Other issues addressed were natural resources in Alaska, the need for increased power for the states and reduction in arms. The platforms I was reviewing dated from 1912 and 1924. The more things change, the more they stay...