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...begin with, the staff privileges programs, theories and systems over actual poor children by suggesting that these children remain in lousy public schools since the schools need the money. Frightened at the specter of ghetto kids deserting their class to move up to the snobby culture of Andover, the staff wants to insure they never leave...
...paradox creeps through literary history like a specter: Edgar Allen Poe and Earnest Hemingway killed themselves. Jack Keroauc drank himself to death. My case is not so extreme, either in talent or depression. But the urge to write, and the emotions that fuel good writing, stem from a deep sensitivity to the world outside. A writer's conscience is like skin so sensitive that the air hurts. You've got to dance with the dark side, my brother always tells...
...paradox creeps through literary history like a specter: Edgar Allen Poe and Ernest Hemingway killed themselves. Jack Keroauc drank himself to death. My case is not so extreme, either in talent or depression. But the urge to write, and the emotions that fuel good writing, stem from a deep sensitivity to the world outside. A writer's conscience is like skin so sensitive that the air hurts. You've got to dance with the dark side, my brother always tells...
...test also takes society right into the brave new world of genetic screening, raising the specter of eugenically minded parents throwing out embryo after embryo in search of the "perfect" child. And while it promises to reduce the number of abortions later in pregnancy, it is already drawing fire from those who oppose the taking of any human life, no matter how small. "Once you've joined the male sperm with the female egg, it's a human being," says Robert Powell, vice president of the National Right to Life Committee. "You're killing the very youngest of human beings...
...District Judge Marvin Shoob allows Drogoul to change his plea this week, it is sure to re-open questions about the government's awareness of the financial chicanery surrounding Iraq's military buildup. Though a retrial by jury would be months away, the specter of the "Iraq-gate" scandal would surely hang, unresolved, over the Bush White House until well after the November election...