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...America as an ideal. Americans have never been defined by a common geographic or ethnic heritage so much as by a shared investment in a set of democratic values. What sets the United States apart from almost any nation on earth is this conception that we are a people bound together more by our beliefs than by a common origin in some racial or ethnic “homeland.” As Tocqueville said of the earliest settlers, “they hoped for the triumph of an ideal.” It may seem trivial to some...
...viewed as perversions, like sadomasochism, were now proclaimed "alternative life-styles," presumably self-fulfilling for those attracted to them. Joseph Epstein, in his book Divorced in America, argued that for those on a lifelong mission of self-fulfillment, the very thing that led individuals into marriage?more growth?was bound to lead them right on out; the ties and obligations of wedded life blocked the proper unfolding of the self. But, points out Carlfred Broderick of the University of Southern California's marriage and family therapy program, "total growth, total narcissism, which is supposed to fix everything, doesn...
...represented by the top lawyers in the country. The judiciary had earlier decided against him [and his bid to run for office while remaining Army Chief] unanimously. We were expecting a second judgment, which might only have said he had to remove his uniform. It probably would have bound him to be re-elected by the new assembly [which is to be voted in on Feb 18th]. Because the fact is, the constitution says that the president has to be elected after the expiry of the term of the assembly. Faced with that argument he just sort of became...
...should the 796 superdelegates in the Democratic Party listen to? A group of Representatives, Senators, governors, party members and ex-officials, these folks represent 20% of all the delegates needed to be nominated but are not bound to vote according to any constituency. Exactly none of them were elected by primary voters to be delegates. The superdelegates were created in 1982 to bring some power back to the party establishment after the primary process had gotten a little too democratic and unruly-and had succeeded in nominating some unelectable candidates for the general election...
...When John Edwards joined the ticket as the vice-presidential nominee in the summer, the campaign could have used the North Carolina Methodist much in the same way that Al Gore's campaign dispatched Joseph Lieberman to engage religious voters in 2000. Edwards carried with him a leather-bound copy of The Purpose-Driven Life, a popular devotional book by the Evangelical author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren. Edwards' copy was worn from daily reading, a discipline he shared with tens of millions of other Americans who owned the book...