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With a weakened ethics commission, the state's only true watchdog remains a nongovernmental one, the press. Extensive press coverage by the media has thus far led to the resignation of three King appointees, Elder Affairs Sec. Stephen G. Guptill, Insurance commissioner Stephen F. Clifford and, most recently, MDC Associate Commissioner Thomas Da Silva. A fourth King appointee, MDC Commissioner Thomas Haggerty, took a paid "leave of absence...
...while it is true that many delegates were hard-core student government types looking for that extra line on the resume, most were genuinely interested in learning how students were faring at other schools, how other administrators worked things, what ideas other students had to gain more student control over university decisions...
Today some Americans worry that in the last decade or so the U.S. has veered to the opposite extreme, that it has developed a distaste for children that sometimes seems almost to approach fear and loathing. If that is true, the United Nations' International Year of the Child, just beginning, comes at an ironic time. The premise of the International Year, of course, is not so much that the world's children are disliked or unwelcome as that too many of them are undernourished, badly housed and ill educated. The First World and the Third World have somewhat...
Some scholars think that this kind of writing may be a reflection, rather than a cause, of the preoccupation with disaster. Roy Peter Clark, an English professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...
...lived her grownup years. She was born a Southerner and a Roman Catholic, and the vision that animated all her fiction came early: the infusion of divine grace into the lives of rustic, often grotesque characters who either do not recognize or cannot handle it. This plus talent and true grit guaranteed her status as an original. But the lupus made her a prodigious writer of letters as well. "Mail is very eventful to me," she wrote one friend shortly after returning to Georgia. "I never mind writing anybody," she told another. "In fact it is about my only...