THE `PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY' MANTRA From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 8, 2004| Author: | Copyright 2004 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THIS COLUMN WAS INSPIRED BY THE FIVE EXTRA POUNDS THAT HAVE MADE THEIR ANNUAL POST-HOLIDAY APPEARANCE AND FOR WHICH I CLAIM PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. NO ONE ELSE IS TO BLAME, ALTHOUGH PERHAPS I COULD LAUNCH A SMALL LITIGATION AT THE TWO YOUNG WOMEN WHO PRODUCED THAT MIRACULOUS CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER. But the issue here is not my weight; it's my aforesaid "personal responsibility." PR is the great American password, the single term which, uttered properly, assures my status as a stand-up grown-up. Indeed it seems that American citizenship comes with a set of bootstraps initialed ...

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