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What will keep today's young safe from the downward spiral--which is not only the familiar descent of children bearing children and disintegrated families and AIDS, but also the more general American sexual devolution, the swamp of the id? Basketball has lost its sublimating magic...
...pressure to pray is exactly what the moment of silence in public schools brings. Testifying before the Supreme Court, an eleven-year-old boy of Jewish descent told the justices that after he read during the moment of silence, another boy asked him why. "And I told him that I didn't have to pray then and I didn't want to and then he said something to the effect that if I prayed all the time, maybe I could go to heaven with all the Christians when Jesus came down for the second time instead...
...cultural mission in the sense that most of the participants were of African descent, and there's a certain sense of identity there that cannot be underestimated, a self esteem as far as having a sense of who they are that goes back further than slavery," Johnson said...
Almost the diametric opposite of Brown, Cornell looks like a team on the descent. The Big Red started the 1994 campaign out on a very high note, with victories in six consecutive weeks. And then the wheels fell off the wagon. Cornell crashed to earth with a thud: four straight losses to end the season...
...threat. And they had carried out the blueprint. In 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Admiral William Leahy, was privately worried that Japan might "succeed in combining most of the Asiatic peoples against the whites." Such paranoia led to the internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps; the fbi also kept close surveillance on alleged Japanese attempts to turn black Americans against the U.S. government. For its part, Japanese propaganda described Americans as racist, sex-obsessed, abortion-loving yaju (wild beasts...