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...reports, "one afternoon in April 1989, I walked out of a baseball stadium and saw my son, Albert, then six years old, get hit by a car, fly thirty feet through the air and scrape along the pavement another twenty feet until he came to rest in a gutter." The child, at first near death, eventually recovered. It was in his son's hospital room in Baltimore that Gore began writing Earth in the Balance...
...growing popularity of gutter language, academic froums for purveyors of hate speech and the failure of the press to offer any substantive insight worry me. Free speech, yes. But the speakers--and the sponsors--must pay the price of scrutiny...
...work in Georgia. A little negative campaigning is fine; but gutter politics, unrelieved by either wit or charm, will be, and should be, rejected...
Even if there is significant Black Muslim influence in rap music, granting money to bring a leader in the Nation of Islam--a group led by a man who called Judaism a "gutter religion" and termed Hitler a "great man"--to Harvard could only do more harm than good, leading to further polarization of campus racial and ethnic groups...
Perception has it that getting involved with PBHA is like signing over the semester's grades to the gutter. But not all commitments mean intense chunks of time. Certainly longterm involvement goes furthest in aiding the disadvantaged, but a semester-long social service stint is good for starters...