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The Decimation Of Lebanon Was Showing Up In Chicago As A Series Of Restaurants And Little Shops, Just As The Destruction Of Vietnam Had Been Visible Here A Decade Earlier. If You Never Read The News But Ate Out A Lot You Should Be Able To Tell Who Was Getting Beaten Up Around The World.

I'm At The Atheist End Of The Agnostic Spectrum.

My Parents Were Liberal Intellectuals But Even They Expected Me To Stay At Home And Look After My Younger Siblings And Do The Housework.

Heart Surgeons Do Not Have The World's Smallest Egos: When You Ask Them To Name The World's Three Leading Practitioners, They Never Can Remember The Names Of The Other Two.

Organizer Is Kind Of A Grand Term For What I Was Doing. I Answered An Ad That The Presbyterian Church Of Chicago Put Up On College Campuses. I Was At The University Of Kansas, And It's Somewhat Relevant To My Life And Work That I'm A Jew. But They Weren't Doing A Religious Litmus Test. They Wanted Energetic, Civil-rights-committed College Students To Come Help Them Run Some Summer Programs.