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...invoke but almost never did--sober-minded, even a little abashed--finally settled across the capital and maybe across the country. Every imaginable motive was still at work in "the process," every kind of ugly reckoning is probably still to come, but for once all the players seemed truly struck by the seriousness of the game. In a passionate floor speech before the vote, minority leader Richard Gephardt cried, "May God have mercy on this Congress." It was maybe the one sentiment that could have got a bipartisan vote of approval...
Looking over the list of behaviors that could define hyperactive children, I was struck by the fact that they describe what we used to call an obnoxious little brat. Pity the poor parents who have to resort to drugs to replace good old-fashioned parenting. Do any of the kids who take Ritalin learn, through some weird chemical process, good manners, politeness, kindness and altruism? Are parents that naive, or do they just want to turn their kids into zombies and avoid the whole problem of parenting? RICHARD ORLANDO Montreal...
...Boston Latin Will Appeal Race Suit Ruling" (Dec. 4), The Crimson inaccurately suggested that I had a hand in crafting the Boston Latin admissions policy struck down by the Federal Court of Appeals. That is false...
...Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen. He turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian...
...before, God advises Moses, telling him to gather the people with his staff and "order the rock to yield its water." As he has done previously, Moses strikes the rock with his rod and out flows the water. His sin, as best as anyone can determine, is that he struck rather than spoke...