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...other forms of self-immolation, less instantaneous and less spectacular, to which doctors may not contribute. Drug taking, for example. One could say, The patient wants it, and he knows the risks - why not give him what he wants? No. The doctor is there to help save a suffering soul from the ravages of a failing body. He is not there to ravage a healthy body in the service of a sick and self-destructive soul...
...large clumps of opportunity called Morning and Afternoon. Go build a fort. Use every single art supply in the house to make something big. Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul...
...take a deep breath. Using a lot of florid language, the Supreme Court has essentially said it's O.K. for us to sodomize one another. Terrific, but we were way ahead of you. I don't know a soul who has ever declined what Senator Rick Santorum might call "man on man" sex just because it was illegal in a dwindling number of states...
Television has followed a similar pattern. A few years ago, led by the TLC hit Trading Spaces, came a new breed of home-makeover shows that were really homeowner-makeover shows. A designer would look into your soul and give you a living room that expressed your true nature--all on a $1,000 budget! Now TV is giving out new wardrobes, new lifestyles, new careers and even new noses in an onslaught of makeover series that use reality TV's titillation and tear jerking to offer a new you, vicariously, dozens of times a week...
...DIED. BARRY WHITE, 58, moody, mountainous singer known as the "Black Walrus of Love" whose libidinous baritone and concupiscent lyrics inspired ardor on divans and backseats through the 1970s; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. White took the bawdy jazz ballad and applied a lush varnish of soul to produce such hits as Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and You're the First, the Last, My Everything. White was rediscovered by younger generations and in 2000 won his first two Grammys for the song Staying Power...