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...here I am, writing the final edition of "Stir Frey" (which, by the way, is a name I absolutely hate) and trying to think of something serious to say. It's not easy...
...committee head stays up all night drafting a proposal. A student chooses to stay in on a Friday night, to use the extra time to write an "A" paper. A rower gets up at 6:30 a.m. to do hills before breakfast. All of these decisions are admirable, and stir a sense of self-pride in those who choose to make them. But one is not better than another...
President Bush made a point of playing up Dukakis' Harvard connections during the 1988 campaign in an attempt to stir up opposition to elitism among rural voters. Among the citizens of Fayette County with whom we lived and worked, we found no resentment toward our Harvard background...
INHERENT in my coming forward in print was a kind of familial betrayal--what Richard Rodriguez might call a "sin against intimacy." Later, when I asked the controversial author about the power of writers to stir thought, he responded under his breath that "writers have only the power to offend..." I have obviously done that...
Furthermore, new jails stir vast public resentment. "Everyone wants more prisons," says Ashe, "but always somewhere else." Four years ago, Massachusetts sited a new prison near the village of New Braintree (pop. 900). Townspeople rose up vehemently against the plan, but Governor Michael Dukakis stuck to his guns...