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...State at the time of the coup, he was widely quoted as saying: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." Beckett does emphasize, however, that the monetarism that became Chile's economic creed under Pinochet, and Britain's under Thatcher, was imported from the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman, who was to become a guru to future Thatcher adviser Alan Walters, "rejected the socially conscious economics that had dominated the thinking of democratic governments since the Great Depression of the 1930s," writes...
...been nearly stripped of his membership as one of the faithful. 'I am not a special case,' he writes, 'but in many ways a typical one.' In light of all this, asked why he chooses to remain a Catholic, Wills answers with quiet dignity, 'because of the creed'...Deserves - and will almost certainly find - a wide readership while garnering for Wills both praise as a principled oppositionist and condemnation as a heretic...
This crisis is all the more appalling because it rests on differences about doctrines that are not central to the faith. No one is disputing anything in the creed we recite each Sunday. The issues that have led to this gulf between hierarchy and laity, between institution and people, are not integral to what it means to be a Catholic. The ban on birth control--reaffirmed by fiat by Pope Paul VI after many leading theologians and church officials seemed poised to reverse it--is not an issue as vital as, say, the divinity of Christ, the fact...
...real name be kept confidential) joined Aum after the sarin attack. Though she knew of the group's connection to the subway terrorism, she was drawn to its promise of life after death in a reincarnated form. "I was afraid of dying," she says. "So I liked their creed." She left the group when Japan's new surveillance law required members to fill out forms that would be shared with the government. She couldn't tolerate the invasion of privacy. Ozaki's friends and family don't know about her Aum ties. She follows Asahara's trial, in which...
Friends and family also say they will remember the promises and creed he lived by. He was known to say, “Harm no one,” “work hard,” “enjoy New York” and “take time for nature...whether it be camping in the Adirondacks...strolling Shore Road in Brooklyn...gardening in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens,” according to a tribute posted on the Marsh & McLennan website...