Word: often
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DENYING the poor the personal development and fuller life that often begins with education would be a national tragedy. But the poor would not be the only ones hurt. The Supreme Court's time-bomb decision threatens American society and our economic well-being as a whole...
...reexamine ourselves in order to improve from within. Each of us has the choice to stop, reflect, and look within. And yet, we seem to throw this most precious choice away. In an academic environment where we tend towards the abstract, and we try to externalize and analyze, we often forget that real knowledge is incomplete without the knowledge of one's self...
Momentum in sports can be quite mysterious. Many things can affect a match, but how often does the beeping of a watch alarm turn a contest around...
...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have earned a death threat for Rushdie and international headlines for his book, an artfully written encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often comic, meetings of East and West...
...internal conflict? Not on this score, Darman insists. He has described himself as "a long-term idealist and a short-term realist." Now, in an introspective moment, he adds, "That's the most important short thing I've ever said about myself." Realism, of course, often serves as a respectable disguise for political expedience. Eight years ago this month, he was the first White House insider to warn his colleagues that Reaganomics was flawed. He and Stockman later considered sabotaging Reagan's 1981 tax-reduction bill. Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming...