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America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. It is a creed born of immigration, of the jostling of scores of tribes that become American to the extent to which they can negotiate accommodations with one another. These negotiations succeed unevenly and often fail: you need only to glance at the history of racial relations to know that. The melting pot never melted. But American mutuality lives in recognition of difference. The fact remains that America is a collective act of the imagination whose making never ends, and once that sense of collectivity...
...Bush Administration has assigned DAN QUAYLE the task of leading the counterattack on the pit-bull candidacy of PAT BUCHANAN. The Vice President will visit New Hampshire three times before the Feb. 18 primary in an effort to convince voters that his boss hasn't abandoned the conservative creed. Secret Service agents will scout out bowling alleys and shopping malls where Quayle plans to make "spontaneous" stops to assert that the President understands the fears of middle-class Americans. Besides Buchanan, Quayle faces another nemesis: himself. A new poll indicates that 77% of New Hampshire Republicans would rather vote...
While Buchanan is by far the most extreme neo-isolationist to declare his candidacy, other versions of that creed are erupting all along the political spectrum. The redefinition of U.S. priorities and interests in the post-cold war world is a subject that cries out for cool debate. But what the country has been handed in the slow-starting presidential campaign is mostly warm mush...
...revision of the state curriculum to include religious references in classes on history, social studies and culture. Other states, such as Arizona and California, have introduced similar programs, though all have been careful to distinguish between exposing students to the history and beliefs of various religions and advocating any creed...
...more and more distant, suspicions and hostilities have grown, with no interlocutor to explain misunderstandings, no middle ground in which to find compromises or agreements. Arabs only meet Jews when they are in military uniforms, carrying weapons--ordinary Jews have ceased to meet with their neighbors of a different creed...