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To put it in the most dry terms possible, the institution of marriage vests clergy with the right to act for the state in legally "uniting" a couple while simultaneously offering the ecclesiastical "action" appropriate to the religious tradition represented. I am not certain what was asked of the minister...
Reich definitely sends us a mixed message throughout the essay. On the one hand, he admits that a shmo in his position is in reality "doubly blessed." Someone so blessed cannot really complain, he continues. Here, Reich is the voice of reason and humility. His choice is not so much...
Yet, Reich goes on to describe his predicament as "a painful choice." Now it seems we are to have pity for the fellow. Balance between meaningful work and family is impossible. He has worn himself ragged trying to make it work. Suddenly, Reich doesn't seem like a blessed man...
I know this country's been uniquely blessed. But as I sit dejected, bored, depressed, I wonder if a strict emissions test Is part of life in Rome, or Budapest.
"Blessed gridlock," explains Mark Melcher, director of Washington research for Prudential Securities. Good things have happened because the Republican Congress hasn't let Clinton tax and spend as he might like. And Clinton hasn't let Republicans cut taxes and possibly drive up the budget deficit and interest rates. That...