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...measure of our own Puritanism-a Puritanism which suggests that pleasure must lie in the exclusive repository of expensive vacations; that the routine and the familiar must be devoted exclusively to the work-obsessed and fast-food-filled tedium that will make our panic-stricken two weeks of vacation (as compared with Europe's God-given minimum of a month) seem worth the 50 we have sacrificed to make them possible...
...profiling as if he hadn't spoken at Bob Jones University and she hadn't posed for pictures while smiling and frisking a black man. From the podium, Bush too sent messages. His attempts at bipartisanship included announcing new funds to fight cancer and making everybody clap for cancer-stricken John Moakly. Several Congressmen, evidently confused at this point, yelled bravo as if they wanted an encore. These people were probably named Strom...
...month at Mazlak camp, in the empty desert outside Herat, Hawaneen and his family received 15 lbs. of wheat and a handful of moldy dates. When his son first became ill with pneumonia, Hawaneen waited from dawn to dusk outside the camp clinic, along with hundreds of others stricken with tuberculosis, measles and bronchitis. At last it was Hawaneen's turn. "All they gave me for my son was this," he said helplessly, clutching a plastic strip that once held 12 aspirins...
...stuck at these schools? Build more jails for them? Is this compassionate conservatism? Bush's school-funding cuts and grants for character education are simply another poorly disguised gift to his rich friends at the expense of the rest of us. Virtually all poorly performing schools are in poverty-stricken areas, and top performers are mostly where the rich live. TOM BRADLEY Poway, Calif...
CHARGED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 20, freshman at Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf; with two counts of felony murder; in Washington. Mesa, a resident of Guam, dismayed and relieved a terror-stricken campus by admitting that robbery was his motive for killing two freshmen classmates in their dorms, one early this month with the victim's own knife. The other, weak with cerebral palsy, was bludgeoned to death last year. Mesa had no criminal record and had planned to devote his career to the deaf...