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...present, are forgotten in a global surge of pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances, the myth continually reasserts itself and endures. So it is always a surprise when the Olympics fall short of what the world imagines, a respite from...
Women now control the vast majority of consumer dollars in America -- especially the discretionary dollars. If that is not power, and privilege, what is? An extraplanetary visitor, scouting a report for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy perhaps, might look at the evidence of their lives (the myriad labor-saving devices, the opulent food and shelter, the sheer abundance of choices that most of the rest of the world desperately envies) and come to the conclusion that white middle- and upper-middle-class American women -- from whose ranks the majority of militant feminists arise, the ones who call themselves...
...Joseph P. Kennedy II is next. Then the celebrity parade begins: U.S. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Gov. William F. Weld '66, state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger '64, State Senate President William Bulger, as well as myriad local politicians, including the entire Cambridge City Council...
...visit to the Claverly Hall room of Eliot F. Pratt '94, reveals walls covered by a myriad of street signs and an extensive beer bottle collection...
...huge variety of more recognizable `physical' illnesses may involve changes in these areas, but the tricky thing about mental illnesses can be the lack of a simple sign on the forehead saying "Help, I'm depressed!" In my own case, it was after being exhaustively tested for a myriad of other possibilities that my perceptive and enlightened M.D. at UHS told me, "The times I have seen such persistent unexplained symptoms have usually been cases of depression...