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...That doesn't mean adults have to be serious all the time. It does mean that they should recognize when it's time - and what it means - to grow up and let the kids run their own holiday. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ..." wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians. "But when I became a man, I put away childish things." Paul had never seen plastic pumpkins going "Whoooooooo ..." but you can bet that if he had, he would have told the Corinthians to put them...
...penetrated. Spies had infiltrated, and spotters had been dispatched to help guide American bombs. "You'd be surprised at what these guys achieved," says a Pentagon official in Iraq, referring to the Iraqi collaborators. Even if Saddam was the last to know, many of those in his inner circle understood how deeply the Iraqi security services had been penetrated. At a funeral for two junior military officers midway through the war, mourners asked the commanders present how things were going. "They told us we were losing," one mourner remembers, "that there was a kind of treason in the army...
...dollop of irony. He was one of the first major movie stars who winked at the audience, understanding that they too were intelligent enough to see through the pyrotechnics and absurd dialogue to be amused by the pure entertainment of the spectacle. In his first two careers, Arnold deeply understood both the bohemian and conservative aspects of the popular culture of which he was a part. He immersed himself in them and helped bring them together...
...reveal Reagan's humanity and his sensitivity, not only to great events but also to his roles as father, husband and friend. The letters changed my view of Reagan, whom I had viewed mostly as a political leader. Deep inside the man is the soul of a person who understood life and learned much from it. RODERICK DARWIN P. SANTOS New York City...
...have understood the vulnerabilities of American democracy better than Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19thcentury French social theorist who coined the phrase “tyranny of the majority.” Although he distrusted democracies to get things right the first time, he was optimistic that they could learn from their excesses. “Let time do its work; a sense of the evil will enlighten the people and show them what they need,” he said. “The great privilege of the Americans is to be able to make retrievable mistakes...