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Feldman plays the role of a Trappist monk who leaves the seclusion of the monastery to raise money to pay the mortgage. Along the way he encounters an unscrupulous traveling minister (Boyle), a "hooker with a heart of gold" (Lasser), and a corrupt, power-hungry TV evangelist named Armageddon T. Thunderbird (his initials are A.T.T...
National development is not supposed to be a juggernaut demanding the sacrifice of freedom of speech and justice. What developing countries cannot afford is not the luxury of a critical press, but the white elephant of an inept or corrupt government. Only a critical press can keep the government on its toes or put misguided national development back on the right track...
...open the party to more direct democratic participation have ended by destroying the party's formal structure. The McGovernites were, many of them, college-educated, upper-middle-class, amateur political activists, schooled in Viet Nam and civil rights protest, who regarded the old party boss structures as morally corrupt. The Watergate era, which made all party politicians vaguely suspect, led many candidates (including Jimmy Carter) to minimize their party affiliations, virtually to deny them. And television allowed candidates to project themselves directly upon the electorate's psyches without the mediation and benediction of the party...
...will from now on delegate the responsibility for the safeguarding [of the hostages] to the government and will engage in the most important current issue of the revolution, defense of the Islamic homeland." For his part, Khomeini lavished praise on the militants, saying that by "seizing and holding these corrupt individuals, you have destroyed the myth of U.S. invincibility. I don't have the words to thank you. May God reward you for your service." But during his private meeting with the two militants earlier, Khomeini had formally endorsed the transfer: "It is a correct move to delegate...
...will become an irrelevant profession, for without voters agreeing to increases in the current levels of taxation, little new can be done. And so young men and women not yet wedded to the profession will gradually drift out of the political arena. That they will take with them the corrupt, unable to feed off the bones the tax-slashers leave behind them, is small solace...