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That same day, in the midst of battle, I flanked the boy with yellow teeth and sidearmed a perfect strike at his head. I knew I'd nailed him the instant the rock left my fingers. The missile struck him in the temple, and he clutched his head and fell to his knees, blood gushing through his fingers. I fled in horror, and the war was over. But I secretly cherished a certain involuntary glow of pleasure at the perfect bull's-eye I'd thrown...
...running in 1992, Clinton deflected charges of infidelity by explaining Hillary and he had put past difficulties behind them and the American people should too. Those of us who believed in what he stood for accepted this and supported him despite the questions about his past. The deal struck between the voters and candidate Clinton went something like this: "We'll overlook your past indiscretions and support you with a clearer conscience as long as you behave yourself...
Last September, during a trip to Vilna for the200th anniversary of the death of Elijah BenSolomon Zalman, Wisse was struck by the fact thatthe city has changed profoundly from the time whenher grandmother lived there. In Vilnius, theYiddish literature her grandmother nurtured is allthat is left of a once-thriving Jewish community...
Heat. In the craziest of New England weather weeks, the temperature swung from freezing to tropical in a matter of days, but in the first hours of vacation, when a baby blizzard struck Cambridge, students were left out in the cold with their radiators turned off to save energy and money. The College should take pity on its shivering students and leave the heat on if the temperature warrants...
Calling its editors "the modern equivalents of Thomas Paine or John Peter Zenger," the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down a libel suit against the Let's Go travel guide and Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) March...