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...list of things to do to cure boredom is pretty preposterous. Here are some things he says you should do instead of watching TV: learn to knit, learn to square dance, take up birdwatching, paint watercolors, learn to fly, visit a shut-in, be a tutor or write a letter. I'd rather watch a good "Brady Bunch" rerun...
After four days of pitching their hastily improvised vision of a loosely knit union of sovereign states to wary Soviet legislators, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin tried to sell an equally skeptical audience on the viability of their new enterprise. In an extraordinary live broadcast orchestrated by ABC television that linked U.S. viewers with the Kremlin's St. George's Hall, the Soviet and Russian presidents sought to allay American fears that there would be any backsliding toward communism...
...real issue is not that words can hurt, or that civil rights and tolerance are essential in a democracy, but that hypersensitivity clouds rational discourse: how to knit a contentious American society together rather than allow it to become balkanized by competing interests. "We need to reset the thermostats," writes sociologist Etzioni, "not shatter windows or tear down walls. Extremism in defense of virtue is a vice...
...intimate groups such as Sunday-school classes or at-home Bible studies. Lawyer Larry Jones says he and wife Linda were initially "scared off" by Houston's Second Baptist, thinking it would be "some stale place that has no heartbeat." Instead they found all kinds of opportunities for close-knit fellowship and joined last December...
Neil Rudenstine is known for consulting with a wide range of people before he makes decisions. Apparently, it runs in the family. All three of his children say the close-knit Rudenstine clan stays in close contact, rapping on everything from academic politics to public education reform...