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...curious way, heaven is AWOL. This is not to say that Americans think death ends everything or even that they doubt heaven's existence. People still believe in it: it's just that their concept of exactly what it is has grown foggier, and they hear about it much less frequently from their pastors. To reverse the words of the old spiritual: Everybody's goin' to heaven, just ain't talkin' 'bout it. The silence is such that it sometimes seems heaven might as well not be there. Kreeft complains that even if our basic belief has not wavered...
...told TIME, "because about 80% of the victims are white and 80% of those charged are black." But no evidence of discrimination was found, he said, and so the cases were allowed to proceed. Tracking down all the alleged victims has also proved difficult: Army officials say some went AWOL because of their treatment...
...confident looks: 3 Disdainful snickers: 6. Deep breaths/squaring jaw: 6 Full-blown guffaws: 4. Anxiously awaiting time for rebuttal: 3 Notetaking: 3. Smirks signalling disagreement: 4, including one shake of the head. Almost wandered off stage: 1. Notetaking: 4 STOCK PHRASES: Brink of/bridge to the new/21st century: 7 times. AWOL: 2 References to American families: 8 times, though never mentioned his own. Using panelists' first names: 11 times, including 3 references to Jason. Medicare, Medicaid, environment, education: 7 times California, host state of the debate: At least 7 times. Dole's $550 billion tax "scheme": 2 times. 17 New Taxes...
...instance, Cerny somehow beat the impression that "Harvard Democrats have been AWOL from any real campus discussion of issues and ideas." Obviously, Cerny has not been paying attention. Obviously, he neither read the Crimson article about College Dems' endorsement of the autonomy of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) nor saw us displaying our club's banner at the PBHA rally...
...voters they will offer a more compelling reason to vote for Bill Clinton than the fact that he has his finger in the dike holding back the Republican flood. History has shown that elections are won by the party that shapes the intellectual debate. But Harvard Democrats have been AWOL from any real campus discussion of issues and ideas...