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These clever young men (they all appear to be that) are not distressed at the loss of virtue or values: they appear to bemoan the loss of power, the power to determine who will be sent to the stake and who will not. The well-modulated hysteria suggests at least...
"Harvard has a wonderful sense of place," Gaines said. "The old Yard preserved a marvelous untidy character and puritanical simplicity."
By introducing glasnost, Gorbachev chose to lead his nation into the untidy, antagonistic, uncomfortable, but proud and encouraging prospect of open horizons. He did not make the Soviets lose the Cold War. He ended it. He gave his country the hope of an exciting new society--a more just and...
Were I thought qualified to offer a course at the Kennedy School of Government, I would do so under the title "Three Nasty Problems in the History of American Life: Race, Sex and Democracy." Such a course would examine the radical assumption, illustrated by the present controversy, that we Americans...
Sexton was both a victim and a manipulator, as these things often go. She was shrewd, self-centered, half cracked. She abused her children. In episodes of rage she would seize her daughter Linda and choke or slap her, and one day she threw the little girl across the room...