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The book's subtitle is, "A Pastor to the President Speaks Out," but I hasten to say that it does not betray pastoral confidences.
There are quite a lot of opossums where I live (not, I hasten to say, of the possum type meriting the affectionate attention of Dame Edna Everage), and one sees them most often after they have been killed on the road by a car.
These thoughts were occasioned by what I regard as without question the two most enthralling performances of the decade--and I hasten to temper such a superlative with a dose of irony.
Completing this "Holy Grail" of genetics could hasten cures for cancer, hepatitis, and even HIV-related diseases.
Bob's daughters, we hasten to add, were infants at the time, and his column is an argument against "Ferberizing"--the near-universal American practice of training babies to sleep alone by ignoring their tears of loneliness and terror.