Word: commoner
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...safe haven for reasoned deliberation. But it also can do much more: by holding out the promise that otherwise irreconcilable differences ultimately will be decided upon principles that apply equally to all, judicial review forces all political participants to consider fundamental principles and the nature of our common life in ordinary political debate and discourse...
John Paul referred to Jews as "fellow believers" and spoke of the Holocaust as a "ruthless and inhuman" effort to exterminate specifically European Jews. "Never again!" the Pontiff declared, repeating a common Jewish phrase referring to the Nazi era. He also endorsed Catholic-Jewish programs to educate youngsters about the Nazi atrocities. Said Rabbi James Rudin, interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee: "The healing is under...
...delegates met with John Paul in an ornate sitting room at the home of James Holderman, president of the University of South Carolina. For more than an hour the leaders discussed what one observer called the "expansion of spiritual commitment and their common grounds of baptism, the Lord's Prayer, the divinity of Christ and common communion." Bishop Philip Cousin of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and also president of the National Council of Churches, told John Paul that a "sense of religious strength" among Americans offered the possibility of unique advances in ecumenism. For his part, the Pope replied...
Throughout the five years that the Reagan Administration has made common cause with the rebels, the most decisive skirmishes have taken place outside the jungles of Central America. On Capitol Hill a wavering Congress, turning the aid spigot on and off, has sometimes seemed to the contras a more troublesome adversary than the 65,000 armed soldiers of the Sandinista People's Army. Now a homegrown peace plan hatched in the capitals of Central America has upstaged the war. Even some contra civilian leaders have caught peace fever, declaring their intention to re-enter politics in Nicaragua and leave those...
...conservative Antonin Scalia to the court last year. Moreover, with only 16 months remaining in the Reagan Administration, the Bork issue has become a device to galvanize and unify the disparate interest groups on the left. Neas is overseeing a "megacoalition" of prominent liberal organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., Common Cause, People for the American Way, the National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League. The coalition has published a half-dozen scholarly analyses of Bork's record and coordinated demonstrations against the nomination around the country...