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...swung into a country tune, God Bless the U.S.A. "Hit the balloons," said Schuman. As 10,000 of them-red, white and blue-rose into the darkening sky, the awed crowd waved tiny American flags and swayed to the music. Tears formed, to be rubbed quickly away, lest a neighbor see. It had been another bravura performance, calculated to make everyone feel good, very good-and to keep Ronald Reagan in the White House four more years...
...less circumspect guests. To celebrate New Year's Eve, she allowed her employees to keep half of the take; women who worked through the entire night kept 60%. For all her high living, Barrows believed in noblesse oblige: she volunteered to buy groceries for an elderly neighbor and donated money to the city's Meals-on-Wheels program...
...accusations multiplied until the sexual-abuse scandal in Jordan, Minn. (pop. 2,663), gripped the entire community. After a mother told police last year that her teen-age daughter had been abused by a neighbor, 24 adults were charged with molesting 37 children, including their own. The children provided graphic testimony, and James Rud, 26, a convicted child molester, described a perverted version of hide-and-seek in which, he said, the adults would search out the children and spend five or ten minutes sexually molesting each...
...traditional translation. "The LORD is my shepherd" has a distinctly male aura to it. Far better, say the critics, to render David's words in a neutral way: "God is my shepherd." Similarly, sexism is allegedly rampant in the commandment given to Moses, "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife." Fairness would dictate an even-handed condemnation by adding "or husband...
Some are reminiscent of the rabbinical parables Singer heard his father tell in Poland. A rich miser lends his neighbor a silver spoon. Next day the borrower returns the utensil, and brings with it a smaller one because "your tablespoon gave birth to a teaspoon." Delighted, the miser offers a set of candlesticks, only to learn, two days later, that they have passed away. "How can candlesticks die?" screams the rich man. Greed gets a talmudic reply: "If spoons can give birth, candlesticks...