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...Private values," Reagan said on Tuesday, "must be at the heart of public policies." But that is precisely the President's problem; he lacks heart when it comes to helping those to whom Trevor is devoted. Mutual aid is the message which Trevor Farrell conveys; a benevolent government should adopt Trevor's "private values" and follow its hero's example. The homeless are the responsibility of more than just a 13-year...
...commentary piece advocating the "isolation" of AIDS carriers, Jeff Wise writes that "no society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of defency." Yet Mr. Wise's comments belie this sentiment. He is eager to ignore the faces of AIDS in his zealousness to ship AIDS carries to concentration camps--oops, I mean "special treatment centers...
Such legislation will not be passed tomorrow. No society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of jecency. But like our forefathers, we have no other options. When and if it becomes common to see friends die, when the fear our ancestors felt returns, our attitude will change...
Council representatives last night said the council should maintain its ties to the ACSR because it was unreasonable to expect the the seven-man Corporation to adopt all the reforms the council spelled out last spring...
...starts with a bed, a desk, a chair, and a bookcase. In September, every room looks alike. But once the amateur interior decorators get to work, their dorm rooms adopt characteristics as individualistic as the residents themselves...