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...deal like that, no terms make sense. They are bound to be violated (as Whitehead wound up violating them) because they apply to a realm of human conduct that is biological, erratic and deeply mysterious. If Whitehead had volunteered her pregnancy as an act of generosity to the Sterns, the matter would have involved the same ambiguities, puzzlement and pain. Money made matters considerably more difficult, since money imposed a legal cast on a service not reasonably regulated by laws, not reasonably regulated at all; but all such bargains are unwise, and when they work, more is owed to luck...
...legacy of Reagan the great American imagist lies as much in the realm of the symbolic as in the area of hard accomplishment. One of his great achievements was to restore the morale of the American people for a time, just as he restored -- for a time -- a faith in the institution of the presidency & and in the idea of presidential leadership. He persuaded the American people that their optimism was once again valid...
...themselves as having been raped. Koss found that 73% of the women forced into sex avoided using the term rape to describe their experiences, and only 5% reported the incident to police. Psychologist Barry Burkhart of Auburn University explains, "Because it is such a paralyzing event, so outside the realm of normal events, they literally don't know what happened to them...
Though Brown deals mostly within the realm of the mind and its effect on the body, he has lately been experimenting with the effects of mental powers on physical objects. He has found that he can magnetize rocks by focussing his mental energies on a certain frequency, and then transmitting this energy to the rocks...
...meeting's organizers and Dezieck said Holyoke Center will probably not set up a lounge on each floor, which many workers have said would solve the problem of thick smoke and crowding in the two lounges. "We will work in the realistic realm now," Dezieck said...