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...down the heavy Corneille. I would hear, behind me, a dazzled voice whisper: 'But it's because he likes Corneille!' I didn't like him." In secret, he would read trashy boys' adventure stories that his mother bought for him by the hundreds. "I owe to those my first encounters with Beauty. When I opened them, I forgot about everything. Was that reading? No, but it was death by ecstasy...
...this policy has been to increase academic competitiveness in high schools, and hence raise the standing of academic values. "It is during this formative period of calculated planning for college," Shinagel says, "with its emphasis on high and consistent academic performance, that any intellectual or academic professionalism may owe its origins...
...gooder, he could play rough-and-tumble politics with the best-and against the worst-of them. The balance of power in Illinois' closely divided state house of representatives has long been held by a handful of Republicans from Chicago's West Side who actually owe their political allegiance to the city's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley. Among other things, the members of the so-called "West Side Bloc," both Republican and Democratic, were notorious for voting against anti-crime legislation...
Raising capital for building-as opposed to getting money for week-to-week operation-creates other controversies. Baptist Minister the Rev. Dale Ihrie of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., financed his church by selling bonds to his congregation; they liked it because "they owe the money to themselves," and he liked it because many holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop...
...attention on the threat of Chinese communism in the whole of Southeast Asia. Lee pointed out the far reaching significance of the Vietnam war when he added. "We appeal to the conscience of the American people to realize and their moral duty to re-unify Korea and Vietnam. We owe this to the men who have given their lives for freedom." Lee noted that 35,000 American soldiers were killed in Korea, but Korea is a still divided, and Chinese still occupy North Korea. "The mistaken in Korea should not be repeated in Vietnam," he said...