Word: mayo
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...paraphrase Michael K. Mayo's recent editorial: it must be pretty easy to be a liberal. I should know; I used to be one. My transformation, however, came somewhat later than Mr. Mayo's. I grew up as a Democrat in the middle of Republican Kansas. I argued against the death penalty, vociferously condemned U.S. policy in Central America, and flirted with socialism as an answer to American domestic problems. My school lockers sported in turn a Mondale/Ferraro and a Dukakis/Bentsen sticker. At the time when Mr. Mayo was adulating him, Ronald Reagan was for me the incarnate manifestation...
...Mother Teresa does more for the world in one hour," writes Mr. Mayo, "than Nixon, Reagan, and Bush did all their lives." I will admit the strong probability of the statement, and go farther. Mother Teresa does more for the poor in one hour than Johnson, Carter, and Clinton, with all their programs and initiatives, have done in all their careers. Humane commitment and deep compassion cannot be replaced by a faceless government bureaucracy whose primary effect has been to create a permanent underclass dependent upon the state...
...Mayo describes Mother Teresa as "someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system." I strongly doubt that Mother Teresa sees her efforts in quite those terms. The moral and religious commitments which underlie her work--commitments which oblige her to oppose abortion and contraception no less than to show charity to the poor--are not, it seems, those of the majority of American liberals...
Michael K. Mayo '94 is associate editorial chair of The Crimson. The "K" stands for Kennedy. Really...
...Connally's funeral, flew back to France, then to California to conduct Pat Nixon's funeral, then returned to France once again, too tired to get much work done. "I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down," he says, "whether you want to slow down or not." Mayo Clinic doctors tell him he can stand and preach for, at most, five more years...