"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Etc… An Evelyn Waugh Centennial symposium is planned at Georgetown on Oct. 24 * A facelift has been performed on the NYT * Patterico has thoughtful posts on the constitutionality of the partial-birth-abortion ban, on a neurologist's take on the "inhumanity" of starving Terri Schiavo, and on a high-school ban of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Terri Schiavo's family has been denied visitation rights * The Orlando Sentineleditorializes that the legislative intervention to save Terri Schiavo from being starved to death amounts to "playing God." Presumably, taking someone else's life in the name of that person's right to die does not * Bill Allen, University of Florida bioethicist who sees nothing ethically wrong with starving Terri Schiavo, holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary