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...lady of West Virginia before breaking down and admitting that she actually cried half the time during that period, almost bereft, feeling deeply alone and friendless ... Even after she acknowledged her life was less than the fairy tale she presented to the public, Rachael worried that her comments might reflect negatively on Gaston...
...black, he must represent the views of liberal civil rights organizations. It is demeaning and condescending to try to lump the diverse members of an entire community into one orthodoxy and deem only one view authentic. No one would suggest that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer must reflect "Jewish views," or that Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy must represent "Irish opinions." Moreover, the Supreme Court is not a representative body; its members are appointed for life so that they may act as neutral, dispassionate umpires in the constitutional disputes of our day. That is precisely...
...personal tragedy that brought Pagels to reflect on Satan. In 1987 her six-year-old son Mark died of a respiratory illness. Fifteen months later, her husband Heinz, a physicist, fell to his death while hiking in Colorado. Eventually, Pagels found herself reflecting on the ways in which an invisible presence, like her missing loved ones, holds power over the living. In that frame of mind she turned to the early church and its invisible enemy...
Wylie hoped the book would draw attention to the need to broaden conceptions of language learning, according to a 1977 New York Times Book Review article, Many Americans with asuperb command of verbal French "simply do notunderstand the nonverbal messages that reflect agreat deal of the culture of a people," he said...
...under discussion is that sanctions renewal could be imposed by three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council rather than by unanimous decision; whether such a change in voting procedure is legal remains in question, but as a senior U.S. Administration official puts it, "It does reflect an effort to get around the problem of the veto...