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...Little Rock, were called up for duty in Iraq by the Arkansas National Guard; one more was called by the Air Force Reserve. It was a blow not just to the weekend warriors-who were more accustomed to tornado cleanup than fighting-but to their families and Bradford's civic life as well. The town's big projects-to update the water system, jail the local methamphetamine dealers and make a clean sweep of the junk in people's yards-slowly stalled. Given fears for the town's soldiers, it was as if Bradford held its breath for the year...
...Galluccio’s proposal is obviously designed so that he would win,” said Robert Winters, a math instructor at the Extension School and editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal...
...candidates such as former President Fidel V. Ramos and longtime Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile scoff at the coup rumors. "Who is going to run the country?" asks Enrile. But other politicians are more concerned. House Speaker Jose de Venecia has called for emergency "unity talks" among politicians and civic organizations to simmer things down...
...seems that Adam Goldenberg, in his “Question of Boundaries,” (Comment, Apr. 27) conceives of a rather false dichotomy between religious and civic life. The institutions are separate, but the individuals who are a part of both institutions cannot partition their lives and their actions into non-overlapping circles without being false to their religion. The inherent roles of most religions are to prescribe, in some manner, a set of behaviors that they deem moral. Human actions, even when involved in secular, civic affairs, involve morality simply due to the fact that people are expected...
...were a civil servant assigned to the role of executing prisoners, I would object, refusing to carry out my duties, even at the risk of being fired, because they contradict my moral code, which is defined by my religious beliefs. Even if the institution I act within is a civic institution, all of my actions are nevertheless subject to morality. I may not agree with Pope Benedict’s stance on homosexual marriage, but to say that it isn’t the Church’s business to call people to action on such a thing is completely...