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...Fourth of July has come and gone and the August recess is a few weeks away. It's summer's dead center point and even the obsessive presidential candidates seem to be bowing to the season with unusually sane schedules. They're still flying around the country at a steady pace, from swing state to fund raiser to photo op, still taking the occasional swipe. But neither is breaking a sweat...
...Obama's trip - let's not quite call it a summer vacation - should have him back just in time to pick a vice presidential nominee and, like Mccain, start cramming for his party's convention. Then sprint will begin. For now, though, the campaign remains at a gathering trot...
Lastly, I’ve realized that I’m a man adrift. Living in D.C. has cast doubts on my assumption that I would work in Boston or Hartford after college. Unfortunately, pondering a life here raises more questions: What will I do next summer? Should I try someplace else? Wasn’t summer when I was supposed to ignore these things? I keep waiting for a spasm of homesickness, when the violins trill, the clarinets wail, and I suddenly remember how much I miss home. But it never comes. And the most frustrating fact is that...
...Americans were receiving food stamps in March compared to a year earlier, according to the USDA. Meanwhile, America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest food-bank network, reported a 20% increase in the number of people seeking food aid this spring compared to a year ago. And this summer more parents have signed their kids up for camps that make use of free lunch programs. "More and more children are coming to child care hungry," said Paula James, director of the Contra Costa Child Care Council in California...
...Friday, the New York Times broke a story about the famous "Serenity Prayer," part of which is cited above. For decades, it has been routinely attributed to the great Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote it, according to most accounts, for a sermon he gave in the summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there...