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...beard is appropriately patriarchal, his voice surprisingly soft. "I'm a man who wakes every morning and thanks God for what is," Lee says. "I don't worry. I work. I believe that the Government of the U.S. is fair and just. It is not the Amish habit to be in confrontation; we avoid it. So it was with great difficulty and much prayer that I took this...
Everyone has an internal sense of history's motions. What is the appropriate time frame for a war, for example? In an earlier age, a pair of countries tenaciously aggrieved could spend 100 years at it. But that is exceptional-war as a kind of habit. Human memory is usually too short for that. War after all requires a certain amount of concentration...
...catcher Carlton Fisk, who makes a habit of spoiling Boston home openers, then walloped the ball off the wall in left-center to give Chicago its second run. Fisk undoubtedly enjoys his visits to Fenway Park. Yesterday he went two for three with a walk and an RBI, and in last year's opener he had a three-run homer in the eighth to give the White...
...clinic provides weekly crisis-oriented psychotherapy sessions to all patients, recommending life-style changes-finding new, nonsnorting friends for example-and helping them to understand the reasons for their habit. Cocaine is not, strictly speaking, physically addictive. But, says Clinic Coordinator Antoinette Helfrich, it has a "reinforcing nature-people want more and more." The self-blackmail contract seems to stir up the resources necessary to break the cycle. The key, says Helfrich, is that "patients have a reason not to do the drug that is stronger than any reason...
Evenings were a convenient time to meet Soviet citizens. Several Soviet students made a habit of waiting around the lobby of our institute just at the time our classes were dismissed. Most of these, however, were primarily interested in obtaining our winter coats and dollars for exchange on the black market, so it was advisable to make friends elsewhere...