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QUOTE OF NOTE: "My compass is my conscience. That is compatible with the people I represent...
...said Clinton had no core, and when that didn't work, he labeled him an old-fashioned liberal, and that didn't work either. Scandal was left, so Dole tried that, eventually lighting on foreign contributions as the most recent example of Clinton's lack of a moral compass. But most voters, the polls found, had long since concluded that while inherently "untrustworthy," the President was nevertheless trustworthy enough for the White House, and in fact cared more about their own problems than did Dole--which mattered more to them than anything nefarious that the President or his wife...
...imagined the response The Book of Virtues would elicit, with 2.3 million copies sold to date. Bennett followed with an illustrated Children's Book of Virtues; a separate anthology aimed at adults, The Moral Compass; and the PBS cartoon series in which a buffalo named Plato (who bears a strong resemblance to Bennett) leads a pair of children through animated moral tales...
...Someone needs to be the public voice of conscience for the University," said Reeves. "My hope is that the University will find its moral compass and finds its way going forward instead of backwards...
...THIS TIME, A PRESIDENTIAL RACE needs a working metaphor, a compass for the voters to steer by. In 1988 we got "competence vs. ideology," which meant "Whom do you want behind the desk when the phone rings and the Soviet empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both...