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...sees little hugging at the Elbe these days. Only a few weeks ago, a Soviet soldier in East Germany shot and killed a U.S. military officer for trespassing. Perhaps V-E day requires a more sober and moderate reaction than celebration. There are things simply to consider: the selfless heroism of the millions who fought to prevent Hitler's onslaught; the cooperation of proud powers in a right and necessary cause. As a practical lesson, one must also consider how quickly and easily the world allowed a madman to seize it by the throat...
...appear perfectly pedestrian, with the warm white fur and beady pink eyes of pet-store mice. Others are clearly extraordinary, waddling about on paws shaped like miniature dolphin flippers or swollen to the size of their larger relative, the rat. They are called transgenic mice, and in a nobly selfless fashion, they are revolutionizing modern biology. Hidden somewhere along the twisting chain of DNA found in every cell of their bodies are alien genes, injected by biologists. The study of these mutants and the effects of the interloping genes may help provide answers to such fundamental questions as what switches...
...story selected for the well-attended event, Lackawanna Blues, is based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s autobiographical play and follows the life of Rachel Crosby or “Nanny,” a selfless woman who adopts and nurtures a boy named Junior, while building a rich community in the strong African American cultural climate of the late 1950s and 1960s...
Matt told me how much he loves and admires his parents and how he talks to his sister Jessica on the phone everyday. Later, Jessica emailed me a long self-proclaimed love letter about the selfless, sweet man her little brother has become. Sweet and sensitive? Thoughts of Matt’s dim wit and Harvard-standard ambitions were fast being replaced by dreams of romantic candlelit dinners followed by repeated viewings of Clueless. But I tried to restrain myself: keep it professional, I thought...
...crime--even a genius needs a good editor once in a while--but Ariel contains a great deal of pain and sorrow and rage directed at Hughes. He was an exceptionally gifted poet himself--he would later become England's poet laureate--but if you're looking for a selfless, disinterested editor to reshape somebody's work, you do not hire the guy who just broke that person's heart...