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...most substantive (and autoerotic) article is one written by Roger Landry, now of the St. Phillips Seminary in Toronto. It is titled--in a typically pompous Latin-laden style--"Veritas Revisited." Landry recounts the heroic story of Peninsula's attempt to create a campus dialogue on the moral position of homosexuality...
Ripken would forgive him. The truly heroic aspect of the streak is that he's not doing it for selfish glory; he's doing it for the team. If Ripken gets to No. 2,131, you can be sure he'll play in No. 2,132. And though the demands on his time are already ludicrous, he is willing to put up with them. Says Ripken: "I think the good feeling that is starting to generate about the streak comes from our love of baseball. It's not necessarily about me. It's about statistics and history and the game...
...display of intellectual honesty unmatched by any other senior policy maker of the time. McNamara's courage in assuming this burden has gone largely unnoticed before those who can never forgive him for prosecuting the war and those who see his confession as one more betrayal of the heroic sacrifice of our nation's veterans and war dead...
Most of the works for solo piano are brief (between one and two minutes), and were composed in 1862, when Nietzsche was only 17. His lack of formal training shows, but the pieces require no apology and display a true melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin...
...summarize but clearly present once again in Our Game (Knopf; 302 pages; $24). There is a sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against...