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...RELIGION, May 13]. But to call Franklin a "somewhat limited man" lacking "curiosity" about "intellectual and theological" matters is an unfair assessment of him. Anyone who knows him well, as I do, will tell you he possesses a breadth of experience and an insight into global affairs that are uncommon among many world leaders. Through his numerous trips to the Middle East and through dealings in other international hot spots, he has developed a working knowledge of important issues. Granted, he is not likely to turn up at a protracted think-tank meeting and is better characterized as a doer...
...infrequent but not extremely uncommon," Lewis said of students whose behavior as a result of medical conditions might require them to take a leave...
...cities such as Washington, it is not uncommon for black school administrators and teachers to enroll their children in private or suburban schools. If the city schools are not good enough for their offspring, they are not good enough for Chelsea Clinton or anyone else. By mismanaging the schools, the black professionals who run them have betrayed the best of the African-American tradition, which values education above all else, and have given whites who never believed in integration an easy excuse for abandoning...
...active in the Yale Precision Marching Band, with whom he traveled to London as a junior, as well as in the Yale Political Union. Weed was awarded the David Everett Chantler Prize, one of approximately a dozen prestigious Yale graduation honors, which recognizes students who have "shown uncommon strength in pursuit of higher moral purpose," he says...
...even more apparent by next fall. The network is planning to launch a two-hour Disney family movie on Saturday nights, with Disney chairman Michael Eisner as the probable host. Six of the 29 pilots that ABC is considering for next season come from the Disney studio--a not uncommon bit of corporate synergy now that networks are allowed to own their own programs (and now that studios like Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox own their own networks), but one that has nevertheless raised fears among other Hollywood studios that they will eventually be shut out. ABC executives deny...