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...Marshalls describe him, Lee has lived a life of middle-class bliss in White Rock, 10 miles east of Los Alamos. He likes to fish, cook and tend his backyard garden, according to the Marshalls. He has been, they say, an ideal neighbor--outgoing and never happier than when working in the sun. Says Jean: "He's the sort of person who, when he paints his house, will say, 'Do you want me to come over and paint yours?'" Most of all, the Marshalls say, Lee has been committed to the education and welfare of his two children...
...concept that one should be ruled by one's passions, which are unstable, irrational and often contrary to one's moral and social duties. No culture in history has valued romantic love like our own, and yet there is every indication that this has not made for happier families or for more selfless individuals. The ancient Romans had the motto dux vitae ratio ("reason is the guide of life"). The claim that love can justify anything amounts to unconditional surrender before our own fickle passions and to the rejection of everything that moral thought should stand for. Alejandro Jenkins...
...eventually I forgot about it. I went my generally happy little way while he went his $10-happier little...
...parents didn't have enough to feel guilty about. Some advocacy groups are trying to convince them that circumcision--the cutting away of the foreskin of the penis--is the most barbaric thing they can do to a newborn boy. Others believe circumcision will make a boy healthier and happier all his life. The truth is far less dramatic. According to a review of 40 years of data published last week by the American Academy of Pediatrics, circumcision does provide some potential medical benefits, but they are not so overwhelming that parents should feel compelled to have it done...
...Matthew rapped, along with the crowd. In the audience, Harvard students, with their papers and reading a mile away, couldn't have been happier...