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...wonder how much more suffering we have to inflict on ourselves before we start thinking in terms of fundamentals such as ethics and law, such as building functioning and controllable institutions, such as selecting honest and accountable leaders--rather than in terms of yet another khozyain. Wrote Alexander Pushkin: "It is only when the sacred freedom is firmly coupled with strong law that the people's suffering doesn't lie over royal heads." I wonder if we will ever really read and understand our beloved national poet? Or will we only keep reciting him mindlessly while standing in long lines...
...that is ravaging the U.S. and has taken a particularly harsh toll on teenagers. Things have got so bad that researchers from Johns Hopkins University last week called for routine screening every six months of all sexually active teenage girls for infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, a germ that can inflict permanent infertility. First isolated from the genital tract in 1959, chlamydia causes 4 million infections in the U.S. each year...
...know anybody at the top of the system...who really wants to see the President hurt," said Senator Orrin Hatch, who could inflict some of that hurt. "[If] he does come forth and say, 'I made a mistake...'[to] protect his wife and daughter...and then ask for...some sort of consideration, I think we would bend over backward to try and give him that consideration...
...bombs with a single message: don't forget the world's superpower still has enemies, secret, violent and determined. America is ever a target, its embassies and installations abroad inviting symbols of its power. See, say the bombers, despite your enormous wealth and strength, we can still inflict a great hurt...
...socially unacceptable, book burning by a bibliophile. The Don, a Lima insurance executive by day and an aesthete at night, regularly incinerates his unwanted books and pictures to make room for new additions. Why not donate them to libraries and museums? His answer ("I realized it was stupid to inflict on other eyes a work I had come to consider unworthy of mine") suggests both a refreshing approach to criticism and a fine madness...