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...buying becomes our patriotic duty. Perhaps we'd need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded ground zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks...
...buying becomes our patriotic duty. Perhaps we'd need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded Ground Zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks...
...wars get the rhetoric they deserve? Maybe so. The Civil War yielded the Gettysburg Address and the Cold War Churchill?s Iron Curtain address. Sometimes, though, the rhetoric sails beyond the cause. Shakespeare?s Agincourt speech - "We happy few, we band of brothers" - celebrated what was, after all, a stupid battle. This is a just war - the very definition of a just war, at least in its conception. So far, its rhetoric is right...
...wars get the rhetoric they deserve? Maybe so. The Civil War yielded the Gettysburg Address and the Cold War Churchill?s Iron Curtain address. Sometimes, though, the rhetoric sails beyond the cause. Shakespeare?s Agincourt speech - "We happy few, we band of brothers" - celebrated what was, after all, a stupid battle. This is a just war - the very definition of a just war, at least in its conception. So far, its rhetoric is right...
...Dangerous Talk," I was expecting to see a reference to a book by Miriam Therese Winter, Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest. According to the book, during the cold war women were validly ordained as Catholic priests behind the Iron Curtain. The Vatican may ban the discussion of whether there should be female priests; it cannot deny the precedent. ALEXANDER CUDZEWICZ Scottsdale, Ariz...