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NEW YORK--Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton yesterday accepted his party's nomination for President of the United States in a speech emphasizing patriotism and family values, attacking President Bush and calling for a "New Covenant" in which government and citizens would join together to "revitalize America."
-- Social programs. A main element of Clinton's much touted "new covenant" between the Government and its citizens is his plan to ditch the $6 billion student-loan program and replace it with an $8 billion program that would extend funds to any student entering college -- but require repayment, either...
"There was a covenant," he said. "No one would try to demagogue it up during the hearings."
Defenders of tradition are often accused of blindly upholding the social status quo. That is selling them short. Even the most conservative American churches have assailed aspects of the status quo, from dueling to saloons to the 12-hour workday. Instead the sexual conservatives see themselves as defending divinely given...
No chance of that. By a 534-to-31 vote the Presbyterians last week rejected the controversial report. They also issued an outright disavowal of the practice of homosexuality and affirmed "the sanctity of the marital covenant between one man and one woman." But the raucous debate that led up...