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If I had to believe that there is a divine plan that gives reason to my son's senseless death, I would no longer have any use for God. Rabbi Kushner has given me the only basis for any rational understanding or acceptance of this tragedy. There surely has...
On Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini: The chances for peace appear slim because Khomeini is a politician, not a man of principle. As time goes by, he is beginning to reveal his superficiality. The more he talks, the more he makes himself a laughingstock. I wish the whole world would read his...
All's Well is a difficult play, partly because it embraces tantalizing contradictions. It is romantic and antiromantic. It is rational in discourse, yet a strange current of magic, mystery and folklore courses through it. Even its lovers are drawn to each other only as opposites. Helena (Harriet Walter...
The class was pleased at the news of the birth, but they were also cheering Bell himself for breaking the unwritten rules of professorial conduct, which preclude any emotional openness in the presence of the students. Bell is down to earth in a way that academic giants like Stanley Hoffmann...
But for the time being there was no easy way to patch the breach opened by the lamentable Falklands war. As long as emotions remained a guiding force both in Britain and in Argentina, the only U.S. option, in the words of a State Department official, was "quiet encouragement." The...