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...Live Crew to make up for some of the crudity I’ve since lost. Seeing why these programs do not work is far, far too easy. The average teenager’s capacity to store gigabytes and gigabytes of porn has made the concept of “purity” something of an abstraction. I am not sure what this “purity” is, but I’m pretty sure it would have elicited laughter from a classroom full of schoolboys who spent their time e-mailing highlights from www.rotten.com to one another...
Opening an important series of lectures on democracy and the Constitution, Breyer stressed the importance of what he called “active liberty.” In electing representatives, participating in recalls and referenda and other ways—all part of this concept of “active liberty”—he said citizens help trace “the line of authority of the making of government decisions back to the people...
Breyer, considered one of the court’s liberal justices, spoke as the future composition of the nation’s top tribunal has become a major topic of political discussion. Under the lights of a packed Lowell Lecture Hall, he explained how his concept of active liberty relates to the way he decides cases about freedom of speech, federalism and privacy...
...with the vast majority of Americans, when I’m living in this country, the concept of the world “outside” the United States seems like a foreign and largely absurd concept. But, as I am about to embark on a journey to Europe—yes, unlike most Americans I have a passport—I decided yesterday to check the headlines of some of the most widely-read European newspapers. What was the reaction in the world to this almost inexplicable occurrence which has since ruined my rest? It was to this question...
...spirit and we are made in his image, why wouldn't our genes contain God's spirit? Faith in things that are not seen and the idea of free will are both compatible with the concept of a gene that gives us spirituality. Healers and miracle workers are able to call upon this force, sometimes without even understanding how it works...