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...substitute for a life. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, ((not)) winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal," she said. "You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent." Wise words for everyone...
...about security, paralleling its demilitarization, is its denationalization, which may at least restrain xenophobic excesses. Terms like common security, mutual security, global security, international security are proliferating in think tanks and Gorbachev's speeches, if not yet in the National Security Council. These terms have at their core the wise notion that in an increasingly interdependent world, security, however defined, cannot be achieved or protected along national lines; that our security depends on others...
There are times when Healy has something on his mind that cannot be shared by either teaching or example. Then he is apt to write a column for his old friend Meg Greenfield, editorial-page editor of the Washington Post. Recently he wrote a wise, forbearing essay on the troubles of Washington Mayor Marion Barry, concluding with Donne's words, "Thou knowest this man's fall, thou knowest not his wrastling...
...novel Kate Vaiden. This time Price focuses on two young men to tell his hypnotic tale of loss and redemption: Bridge Boatner, a famous painter who looks back at the summer of 1954, when he was a counselor at a camp in North Carolina; and Raphael Noren, a prematurely wise, otherworldly 14-year-old who was a camper there that summer. Price begins with Boatner's reflecting, "I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness...
...think that potentially he can wield quite alot of power the way the ordinance is written,"Wise said. "He is quite a humanitarian and he isnot limited to the requirements of the ordinance.His hands are not tied--if he sees something thatshould not be happening he can stop...