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...In the??final episode of The??Office, sarcastic clerk Tim (Martin Freeman) describes the central absurdity of working life. You have nothing more in common with your co-workers than the carpet you walk on, he says, and yet you have to spend more time with them than with your friends and family. Leaving a job, he might have added, is even stranger: suddenly, to your "family," you no longer exist, and a new sibling takes your place...
...In the??summer of 1988, Vice President George H. W. Bush was foundering. His opponent in the presidential race, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, was doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned...
...need for some people to perjure themselves as they go down the road here. If this thing ever blows, then we are in a cover-up situation. I think it would be extremely damaging to you and the?...
...audible?gap between the enthusiasts of aggiornamento and the defenders of older, stricter ways. Older Jesuits remember when their priestly training took 15 years, much of it in acute isolation from the world: some lived through most of World War II without hearing a radio or seeing a newspaper. The???new Jesuit must still spend perhaps ten years in preparation, but he may live in fraternity-style surroundings in Berkeley, in Cambridge, Mass., or in Manhattan. Under the old rule of tactus, Jesuit seminarians were forbidden even to put an arm on the shoulder of a buddy; now they greet...
...Queen passed the afternoon shopping in West 57th Street, accompanied and counseled by Mrs. Reid. The??? King, attended by the Physician in Ordinary, Rear Admiral Thavara Chayant, was pleased to consult Dr. John M. Wheeler in his office at No. 30 West 59th Street...