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...they'd watched CNN and felt that something awful was happening and called their husbands at work - in Chicago. If we're honest, we'll admit that many of us have those stories ourselves. We cling to them, in a slightly undignified but somehow understandable wish to feel connected to the defining event of our time. To share in the plot line, just as we shared in the grief, to be part of something bigger than ourselves...
...long time ago, when the Soviet Union was beginning to shatter, a Russian friend cracked a joke, and I doubled up laughing on a snowy street in Moscow. "I wish I could smile the way you Americans do," he said. I asked why he couldn't. He said he'd been trained by his parents never to show emotions in public. A stray smile could be misinterpreted, could mean the Gulag. I realized then that my reaction to his joke had been a political statement - a reflexive demonstration of my freedom. I thought about that when the laughter began...
...What one regret do you have about your presidency? -Nyamisi Muindi, Buffalo, N.Y. I wish I had known then what I have learned since I left the White House. We could have had a much more effective policy on alleviating the suffering of people from unnecessary diseases and abject poverty...
...while I may personally wish for an end to final clubs and their destructive influence as institutions, I and most other people on this campus have little power over that closely protected world. What we can do, however, is create a school-wide atmosphere that takes claims of discrimination more seriously and that neither underestimates nor downplays the biases in each...
...accessible drugs. I, for one, am glad—if not proud—that I do not carry HIV. This does not mean that I do not feel sorry for those who are infected by the terrible disease—it just means that I do not wish it upon myself, just as I wish disease victims could be HIV-free...