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...lack of communication may only have been part of the story. The SAC didn't forget about Hillel altogether; Shih said its inclusion was considered early in the process. And Hillel is no stranger to events run through the Foundation, as it is participating in its upcoming cultural festival...
...gracefully written; expectations center on how much is dished up, not on the table manners involved. But the rules change markedly when it comes to autobiographies by the lesser known. Everybody, after all, has a life story, and the reluctance to spend money and time on a relative stranger's is considerable. This, the wary reader is likely to mutter, had better be good...
...boyfriend to her Madrid apartment, where he ODs on heroin and dies. What Have I Done to Deserve This?: an illiterate woman has quickie sex with a muscular student in the shower stall of the kendo academy where she scrubs floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock the Borgias. And that's just...
...Bible, Samaritans were viewed with contempt until Jesus' tale of how one of their community showed great mercy to a stranger redeemed them for history. Perhaps the generation that closes the millennium will find the same vindication. The unheralded gestures of gracious individuals may in the end outlast and belie the labels hung on the Me generation. And government, in the meantime, could take some lessons from the most creative of these very private enterprises. Good ideas need money and leadership as well as light and oxygen to brighten and spread. In the process, we might even discover that this...
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