Word: civics
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...began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there was no breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of asylum seekers a mile from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Bonn office...
...issue has a strange prominence and civic complexity in this campaign. When he was interviewed two weeks ago by NBC's Stone Phillips, President Bush talked about homosexual marriage: " a life-style that in my view is not normal. I don't, I'm not, I don't favor that." The heterosexual public seems disposed to tolerate homosexuality but less inclined to grant gays civil rights protection. Nearly half of those polled consider it "very important that homosexuals be prevented from adopting children," and 67% answered no when asked, "Do you think marriages between homosexual men or between homosexual women...
...playing with other people's money (not the stockholders' but the taxpayers'), fleecing the locals and then fleeing them. Cushioned by the largesse and insecurity of city administrations that are strapped to pay teachers or collect the garbage, rich men play the new, high-stakes version of polo: passing civic assets on to other rich...
...might cynically suggest that a desire for social superiority--not just material well-being--motivates people, and Civic Liberalism is therefore doomed to failure. Maybe you just can't convince people that money doesn't matter...
...proposals about how society ought to work are no less credible than anyone else's ideas. Clinton's still uneasy mix of money and civic liberalism remains untested, and certainly neither the old-style Democrats nor the Republicans offer better solutions. With no end to American's current malaise in sight, revitalizing common culture can't hurt...