Word: citizens
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...good citizen and patriot knows happiness is greater than comfort, more sublime than pleasure. The cynical and indifferent know not what they miss. For their mistake is an impediment not only to our progress as a civilization but to their happiness as individuals...
...They're maybe the greatest corporate citizen this community ever had," says Al Hrabosky, a local celebrity whose biography is a testament to the omnipresence of A-B in St. Louis lives. Known as the "Mad Hungarian" for his antics on the mound, Hrabosky was a star relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals back when the Busch family owned the storied ball club. (The two-year-old downtown ballpark is still known as Busch Stadium, though Busch sold the club in 1995.) "A-B brought me to this city, where I married a St. Louis girl, settled down...
...fences, these areas can be secured only by boots on the ground. Steve McPartland leads one such force: the CBP's élite Air Mobile Unit operating out of San Diego. McPartland is a man of the world--born in Canada, raised in northern England and now an American citizen. After serving in the U.S. Army, he joined the border patrol 11 years ago. "Immigration was a natural for me," he explained, because having gone through the proper channels himself, he resented people who walk into the country illegally. McPartland's sector was the first to put up a border...
...viewers watching the live webcast. The distinctions have become more academic: if 3 million people read Drudge and 65,000 read the New Republic, which is mainstream? And the campaigns have noticed. When the Obama camp sought to debunk online rumors (e.g., that he was not a U.S. citizen by birth), it started its own website and sent Obama's birth certificate to dailykos.com The campaign is too savvy to believe that people take the press as the sole arbiter of truth anymore...
...typical session, McCain takes a dozen questions from an audience that normally is not screened in advance. Despite a bad knee, he nearly trots across a hall to allow a voter to ask a question. "I'd like you to hang on to the microphone," he tells his citizen interrogators, often inviting them to ask follow...