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Given this highly introspective, sensitive woman and a morally confusing, violent historical background, the answer can by no means be simple. Yet this thorough biography, written by a schoolmate-friend of Weil's and bringing together unpublished fragments of Simone's letters and thoughts that afford fascinating insights into her intellectual and ideological maturation, provides reasoned, judicious evidence that suggests some possibilities...
...institutionalized Times lacks. The Post often overplays its own stories. It doesn't try to cover everything; though it has some good correspondents spotted around the world, it relies a great deal on news services. The Post is a high-wire act. It is less deep, less thorough than the Times, but it has an air. As Bradlee says, "We don't print the truth. We print what we know, what people tell us. So we print lies...
...Temple Scroll also provides the first thorough look at the Halakhah (religious law) of the Essenes. Compared with the orthodox rabbinical thinking that was later codified in the second century Mishnah, the Qumran rules on ritual cleanliness were superstrict. Only the skins of properly slaughtered animals were to be permitted in the temple city. Blind people, as well as the ill and maimed, were barred as unclean. All sexual relations within the temple city were forbidden. One cemetery was to serve four cities since "you shall not follow the customs of the Gentiles who bury their dead everywhere...
President Bok said yesterday the report is "thorough and systematic," and "reflects a very steady and substantial decline in the number of places where under-representation occurs," but he declined to call the report either encouraging or discouraging...
...thoroughness in making his choices is to be commended. However, one can be thorough and still decide poorly...