Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curriculum would be serious in any university, but it is particularly dangerous at Harvard and similar institutions that serve as training grounds for the American elite. A disaffected elite, unaware of its nation's history or, even worse, aware of only those parts of its history that cast their homeland in an unfavorable light, will be incapable of engaging in any sacrificial efforts on its nation's behalf. Someone who doesn't believe in their country is incapable of acting for that country, for why act for a nation that seems to stand for nothing and is worth nothing...
Still, everyone tried for a while to make the marriage work. With not a single Republican on their side, Democrats risked much by passing Clinton's bold package of tax hikes in 1993. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a freshman elected by a fluke from a G.O.P. district, reluctantly cast the vote that put it over the top in the House. Republicans on the other side of the chamber waved their hankies at her and chanted, "Bye-bye, Margie." (Sure enough, she was gone in the next election, along with many other Democrats who had come to town on Clinton's coattails...
...expansive moral imagination has much to recommend it--including the endorsement of Jesus Christ. (Among the tactical advantages of Clinton's prayer breakfast was getting reporters to quote clergy quoting Scripture: "He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone.") Still, however humane a generous imagination may be, it poses a problem: Once started, where does it stop...
...neatly typed, lucid and provided names) but because one person's bad behavior doesn't mitigate another's. Nor does Hyde's affair take away from his qualifications to chair possible impeachment proceedings. If you were to set up a "he who is without sin" standard for casting stones, few stones would ever be cast in Washington...
...Fred Tuttle's life to become art. But once that happened, politics followed. For 50 years, Tuttle, 79, was a dairy farmer until bad health--three heart attacks, cataracts, arthritis, diabetes, prostate cancer--forced him to retire in 1989. Then John O'Brien, a neighbor and local filmmaker, cast Tuttle as the lead in his 1996 film, Man with a Plan. In the movie a retired dairy farmer, also named Fred Tuttle, runs for Congress because, well, he needs the money. "I spent all my time in the barn," the fictional Fred tells voters. "I'd just like to spend...