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...profess to have suffered longer--I have just been black longer," Dinkins said...
...could not fathom the possibility that Hillary did not know much more than the story line of the weekend allowed. "That doesn't seem real to me," said one. "They have no secrets," argued another. "They know each other. They know each other backward and forward." She had to profess ignorance, in this view, because the alternative to being a trusting sucker was being a cold-blooded liar. A longtime Democratic official, who has never been in Clinton's camp, watched the mopping-up operation and marveled at the way the Clintons had used their own misery, if that...
...might not be the answer. And given the Baptist scandal over the minister who bought a house with his alleged mistress and allegedly embezzled from the church, the myriad Catholic priest child-molestation trials and the numerous other reports of misdeeds from just about every single religious denomination to profess a faith in the divine, I don't think we can trust the clergy any more, either...
...younger people, the way I am is probably more consonant with how they are. They are NOT a captive audience, so if that's what interests them, that's fine. If they weren't interested already, it's not for not having heard the music, although many profess to hate classical music without ever really having heard it. But I see a lot of kids jazzed up about going to see Mozart operas, and I think that's amazing...
...markedly more pessimistic than Xers. Fully 71% of boomers say, "If I had the chance to start over in life, I would do things differently." Only 59% of Xers and matures agree. Likewise, while Xers see themselves more as life-long job hoppers than as company loyalists, they profess far more satisfaction with their work than their elders. "Boomers entered the marketplace years ago with high expectations," says Yankelovich's Smith. "And when they were disappointed, they thought the future looked bleak for Xers. So they portrayed them as a loser generation...