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...easy outs from the second circle of hell, that's why. Those stuck there have three choices: getting a personality transplant, being extravagantly generous--buy everyone in your entryway a gram of coke!--or teaching yourself solitaire. As the president of a final club once remarked to me, "The meek might inherit the earth, but they won't get punched for the Porc...
...with many sensitive issues, community acceptance will not come without community education. Much of the tremendous fear, distrust and hostility towards the homeless is the result of misconceptions. It would be romanticizing--not to say patronizing--to portray the homeless as a meek group of people. But violence, both verbal and physical, does not characterize the homeless community...
...meek appearance masked the fact that Larry Wu-Tai Chin was a master of deception. For nearly 30 years, Chin, 63, a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Peking, lived a double life. While working as a highly valued translator and analyst for the CIA, he also passed classified documents to the People's Republic of China. His duplicity earned him at least $300,000, and though he gambled much of it away, he had parlayed his take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only...
Graves' vigor and longevity made a shambles of all convenient categories, just as his flamboyant personality came to seem almost mythic. His favorite form of conversation was the extended monologue. Savagely contemptuous when crossed, he could be surprisingly meek and gentle with friends. He also worked tirelessly. "Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion," he wrote in 1948, but he never expected this love to pay his bills. They were often considerable. Graves married twice and had eight children. He also spent more than a decade, between wives, with the American poet Laura Riding...
...debate of the meek or mild, and in recent weeks the opposing voices have grown increasingly strident. "I think corporate raids are an outrage and a bloody scandal," says Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO. "The object is for somebody to make a killing, pure and simple, and I see no virtue in it at all." Counters Minneapolis Investor Irwin Jacobs, who has made runs at targets as varied as ITT and Disney Productions: "We're really not a bunch of big, bad wolves. Mergers and acquisitions have created a great deal of value...