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...loftiest plan I've heard to solve our problems of separation, an Undergraduate Council presidential candidate promised to forge a "Healthier Community." The Crimson derided such plans last week as too "vague." But the paper seized upon the wrong word; it wasn't just a weak choice of adjectives that rendered the platform suspect. The point that painting the whole College as one community might be fraudulent never came up. Yes, students at the Law School or School of Education, usually bound by similar pasts and futures, truly have something. But students here haven't all come from similar backgrounds...
Smaltz's case was so weak that Espy's lawyers decided not to put on a defense. Douglas, an old friend of Espy's who was meant to be the prosecution's strongest witness, turned on Smaltz on the stand and said he'd agreed to become his "puppet" only after three years of "storm-trooper" tactics by the independent counsel. "God knows, if I had $30 million, I could find dirt on you, sir," Douglas told Smaltz in front of the jury. (The amount Smaltz actually spent, through March, was $17.5 million...
...that is as it should be. Any modern assessment of Moses' story needs to expose him to historical detective work, scientific speculation and literary intuition. But it must also acknowledge him as an irresistible personality, a man both weak and strong, a savior rejected, a brother reproved, a prophet both happily and unhappily caught up in the whirlwind of God. The modern search for Moses is like a climb up Mount Sinai. It is a bracing ascent over starkly arid terrain, the ancient volcanic rock giving way to deep chasms, full of darkness and danger. But the view...
...people who seem at first glance to be honest rustics, we are not exactly in Robert Frost country here. Hank (Bill Paxton) is smart enough to guess that money in this amount is going to be pursued by its rightful (or, more likely, wrongful) owners, but he's a weak, inexplicably damaged fellow. His brother Jacob (cunningly played by Billy Bob Thornton) is a halfwit, and Jacob's pal Lou (Brent Briscoe) has a heedless temper. Back home, Hank's wife Sarah (Bridget Fonda) quickly turns into this caper's Lady Macbeth...
...from him, but Appelfeld never tells us any redeeming qualities Karl might have had. We cannot even sympathize with Gloria as a possible victim of Karl's desires. Appelfeld never tells us if Gloria returns Karl's love, and in the end she comes off as being simply weak. Strangely, Gloria possesses an almost robotic tendency to observe the Jewish traditions she learned while living with Karl's parents, though she herself is not Jewish. Meanwhile, everyone else in the novel seems just as cold and selfish as Karl, or perhaps just as desperate, and so as readers...