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Backward economic policies and repressive political regimes slip into societies that are without hope, where ambition and passions have no constructive outlet.
Brown's assertions that the piece plumbs the "depth" of the Clintons' "shared passions" and "spiritual intensity" add to the impression that she's more interested in advertising intimacy than in achieving it.
This endowment is a fitting tribute to a man who made a difference, and will realize one of Steve's passions - supporting students.
The book "strands the reader in the musty groves of academe and mutes the passions of the subtitle," says Jungian analyst Claire Douglas in the Washington Post Book World . (Harvard University Press plugs the book.)
In October, St. Martin's Press will publish an anthology of essays from the Times Higher Education Supplement titled Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety . The book's co-editor Jennifer Wallace, a lecturer at Cambridge University, suggests that food is a source of reassurance in troubling times.