Well, my view is I'm not going to make character an issue. I mean, I think character will be an issue, it always is, when it's my character, his character, I'm going to talk about Bob Dole, talk about myself, I don't like to do it.

Republican presidential candidate BOB DOLE, in an interview on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. There are no typographical errors in the quotation.

Are we as black Christians affected by a new radicalism, where it is more important to be identified with blackness than Christianity?

Theologian RONALD C. POTTER, in a courageous cover article in the Spring 1996 Urban Family magazine, taking to task black Christian leaders who failed to proclaim Christ during Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March.

Williamsburg High School Principal Sam Snyder said Jeremy Goodman's language violated the school district's ban on cursing. However the teenager's mother, Karen Goodman, said the suspension represented a violation of constitutional guarantees of separating church and state.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, reporting a story about an Ohio student's suspension for taking the Lord's name in vain. The student's mother doesn't dispute that her son violated the Third Commandment-although she doesn't put it that way-but claims that punishing him would violate the First Amendment. Ms. Goodman told the Cincinnati Enquirer, "Williamsburg is a very religious town. I understand and respect that, but they can't shove it down my throat. I don't consider 'Jesus Christ' cussing or inappropriate language, not in a legal sense at all."

They say one thing and do another.

President BILL CLINTON, complaining about Soviet Communist leaders.

I wanted to clear my mind, and I started with my hair.

Minnesota Twins' outfielder MATT LAWTON, who tried to improve his .163 batting average by shaving his head; he tripled and singled in the next game and drove in two runs.

If Kaczynski proves to be the Unabomber, he is nobody's hero, certainly not mine.... Coincidentally, Kaczynski invaded our front pages just before Easter Sunday, mute, pathetic, and manacled before his captors. But maybe he accomplished what the Unabomber set out to do, to make us think about ourselves, and the society that drove him to madness.

Boston Globe columnist ALEX BEAM.