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...these people's presence, to see what they look like without the filter of a camera's lens, to be able to say that they saw them. But the real reason these figures draw such crowds is because they are people to whom we feel a need to react. They represent something important to us, whether something we admire or something we scorn. For that reason, of all the highnesses and holinesses that have appeared on our campus in recent years, two were exceptional: Nelson Mandela and Jiang Zemin...
...reception in terms of my Catholic Christianity. In fact, I feel a great deal more comfortable at Harvard celebrating my heritage as a young black man in the second half of the twentieth century than in trumpeting my religion. I wonder how the Puritans who founded this institution would react to that. Despite my adviser's amiable response, I probably won't mention religion to any great extent in my senior thesis on community service as democratic participation. Nor will I offer the religious answers to secular questions I encounter in sections and discussions every day, answers that not only...
...witness tampering. Clinton lawyer David Kendall rejects the charge, arguing that Currie was not a witness in any proceeding at the time (she was never called in the Jones matter). Clinton, in his August grand-jury testimony, conceded that Currie "may have felt some ambivalence about how to react" to his words. He said he had always tried to prevent her from learning of the affair. "[I] did what people do when they do the wrong thing," he said. "I tried to do it where nobody else was looking...
...first time nor, alas, probably the last for this to happen in Russia. The land is going from under our feet; our world is crumbling; and we react only by hoarding salt, sugar and matches. The people berate yet another failed leader and look for a strongman to deliver them. But while we are quick to denounce the leaders, we forget that they cannot be any different from us. Every nation has the leaders it deserves, but I have the uneasy feeling that we have the leaders we want--even if we do not dare admit it. And that...
...president was telling us to stay out of his life; as long we approved of the job he was doing, it was none of our business to interfere in how he conducts his life. The nation reacted with anger to the president's words then, and the nation should react with even more anger now when it examines his defense...