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...Amidst all the complex parliamentary procedures and the legal double-talk slung by both sides, what is really on the defense, once again, is the Senate...
...Amidst all this sound and fury, what they fail to recognize is that blaming television shows for anti-social behavior undermines any notion of moral responsibility. If we accept that television or the movies can overwhelm free will, how can we hold anyone responsible for anything? More importantly, how can we cling to the sanctity of free expression, if free expression can effectively enslave those exposed...
...this Ted guy?" Sean asked amidst the laughter...
...with such issues as if they were quite naturally part of any family's history. Treatment of the aged, parent-child relationships, therapy, politics, senility, Blackness, gayness, economics, education, abuse, dreams, gender, humor, sex--the play is a veritable catalog of contemporary matters, a tapestry of American family life. Amidst all the tensions, the clearest one developed is that of mother-daughter relationships...
These statistics are sometimes lost amidst pictures like those this summer that showed half a million adoring Catholics cheering the pope on at World Youth Day in Denver. But for many American Catholics, disagreeing with some article of church doctrine is less important than the community and family identity that the church represents to them...