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...successful athletes have some kind of sermonette they preach to themselves to get those beneficial chemicals fizzing? Of course they do. Has anyone heard a built-in dial-a-psych like Mike Storm's? Not recently. Storm is a 24-year-old pentathlete from North Arlington, Va., who lives in San Antonio because that is the site of the nation's only pentathlon training center, run by the Army at Fort Sam Houston. Money is no problem; a group of U.S. business men interested in the pentathlon underwrites his training expenses generously enough - about $1,200 a month...
Only recently have those discrepancies started to fade. "Now we preach social integration. We are busing our children. We have about 25% mixed marriages," says Eliezer Shmueli, a Sephardi who is director general of the Ministry of Education. "There is a renaissance of Sephardic culture and ethnic pride." A record 29 Sephardim sit in the 120-member Knesset; three are in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's 19-man Cabinet. Chief of Staff Moshe Levy is a Sephardic Jew, as is Israel Kesar, secretary-general of the 1.1 million-member General Federation of Labor. The second in command of both...
...while officials throughout the Faculty preach the virtue of the decentralized approach to the TF problem. Harvard seems to be handling the problem more directly from its central offices than in the past...
...service and sacrifice, but the (for him) unbearable burden of being a Kennedy. And the burden of an appetite for drugs that he could not control. Yet though his death was miserably private, being a Kennedy he also became a public example, a sermon against drugs that parents will preach to their children for months hence...
...white terms, to find a moral in its every predicament, a sermon in its every scene. Playwright Athol Fugard, 51, has won international acclaim by resisting the impulse to moralize. Such dramas as "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys, Boesman and Lena and A Lesson from Aloes do not preach against the evils of apartheid; they give institutionalized racism a human face, sometimes stolid, sometimes collapsing in laughter, tears or rage...