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...before we race off to go prospecting in those hills, we might usefully recall that fool's gold is much more common and that gold has to be panned for, dug out from other substances. "All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence," wrote Herman Melville, one of the loftiest and most eloquent of souls. Working himself up to an ever more thunderous cry of affirmation, he went on, "Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence...
...considered for Secretary of State. Another proven reputation-enhancement tactic is to float your own name for a job for which you are not being considered. According to Clinton insiders, Senator Bob Kerrey tried this trick during the vice-presidential sweepstakes, and they suspect that deputy transition director Alexis Herman recently put herself forward for Secretary of Labor...
...intention to fine Los Angeles' KSLX-FM $105,000 for broadcasting his "indecent" material. (At the same time, three other stations were fined a total of $6,000 for airing an earlier Stern program.) A long list of Stern offenses were cited, ranging from lewd comments about Pee-wee Herman's self-abuse to gross sexual insults aimed at Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, his chief L.A. rivals. ("First I want to just strip and rape Mark and Brian. I want my two bitches laying there in the cold, naked...
Following last week's Harvard Africa Seminar, Herman Cohen, U.S. assistant secretary for African affairs, made a controversial comment to a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation...
...joined the Princeton faculty at the same time his friend and colleague Toni Morrison--whom he once described as following only Herman Melville and William Faulkner in depth and sophistication in writing--accepted a position there...