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...some self-help huckster hasn't written Apologizing Your Way to the Top. As Murray riffs in A Thousand Clowns, "If you went up to people on the street and offered them money, they'd refuse it. But everybody accepts apology immediately. It's the most negotiable currency." But Gresham's law also applies here: Debased sentiments drive out genuine remorse...
...Gresham Bayne practices medicine in some pretty unusual places. Just last month the San Diego physician was worshipping at the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church when a fellow parishioner collapsed in her pew. Rather than call 911 to rush the 96-year-old woman to the hospital, Bayne asked the ushers to take her to the church parlor. The doctor, who is something of a gadget freak, was equipped for any contingency. Stashed in his black bag--actually a blue-and-gray fishing-tackle box--was a miniaturized version of every diagnostic tool he needed to assess her symptoms...
Once again America is applauding Japan for its supposedly sincere apology to its former enemies and the Asian nations it once occupied. What good is an apology after 50 years? RANDY WANG NGAI KWONG, age 15 Gresham, Oregon...
Unfortunately, fruitcakes can also be thrown into melting pots. There is a danger in the spread of American cultural imperialism. Gresham's Law may prove to be true as American mass culture threatens to absorb the diversity and richness of different cultures, not only within America, but also outside its borders. The French realize this when they picket EuroDisney. The New England Quebecers are only finding out. A world in which ethnic cultures become Americanized and passed off as representatives of their true forms would be a shame...
...frame but also of his blustery tales of having worked at various times for the FBI and the CIA. Eckardt, says Crowe, "lives in a world of shadows and trench coats." Also in the class was Saunders, 24, the pastor of a small evangelical congregation in suburban Gresham. Rotund and clean cut, with the zeal of a Boy Scout, Saunders signed up for the course because of his commitment to defending religious freedom...