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...undergraduate population into volunteer projects. In December, Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 unveiled a subsidized loan plan for those foregoing the lucrative summer internships for lower paying jobs. But these programs are by themselves insufficient, because they ignore the fundamental problem of making a living for oneself while helping others...
Does the spread of such phrases - if they are indeed spreading - mean that the Government is becoming increasingly deceptive, or that it has more to hide? That would be uncharitable, perhaps unfair. Consider it instead a perfectly understandable desire to think well of oneself and of one's work. Isn't everyone counseled to think positively, to look on the bright side, to observe the dough nut rather than the hole, to see that a half-empty glass is really half full? In a time of uncertainty, it is possible to give the Government the benefit...
...fresh and touching. And one that, in effect, concedes the dramatic center of the film to Eric Roberts, who plays Snider, obviously the object of Fosse's appalled interest from the first. Given the hypnotic power of Roberts' complex performance as this unsympathetic victim, one finds oneself in cringing agreement with the director's emphasis...
...find my pictures excessively cold," the cubist painter Juan Gris complained to his dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, in 1915. "Oh, how I wish I had the freedom and the charm of the unfinished! Well, it can't be helped. One must after all paint as one is oneself. My mind is too precise to go dirtying a blue or twisting a straight line...
...polemicists did not understand what he meant. Both Lutherans and Catholics agree that good works by Christian believers are the result of their faith and the working of divine grace in them, not their personal contributions to their own salvation. Christ is the only Savior. One does not save oneself." An international Lutheran-Catholic commission, exploring the basis for possible reunion, made a joint statement along these lines in 1980. Last month a parallel panel in the U.S. issued a significant 21,000-word paper on justification that affirms much of Luther's thinking, though with some careful hedging...