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...Unity. Two of the commandments encompass the Law itself: a duty to study the Torah-Jewish teaching -and to keep Torah books (the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the Jewish prayer book) in the home. A third commands Jews to give charity, and as a reminder the Lubavitchers pass out charity boxes to be kept and filled in the home. A fourth commandment requires a householder to keep on each doorpost (except that of the bathroom) a mezuzah -a small container holding a handwritten parchment with a scriptural passage on the unity...
...peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could encompass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace. America will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious freedom...
...inadequate term Watergate has come to encompass all the wrongdoing of which Richard Nixon and other members of his Administration stand accused-and in many cases convicted-including the politicization of federal agencies, misuse of federal funds for private purposes, attempted bribery by milk producers, misprision of felony, subornation of perjury, obstruction of justice. This catalogue of crimes and misdeeds did not begin with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but were it not for that bungled burglary and the subsequent coverup, most or all of the offenses might have gone unnoticed and unpunished. Why the President...
...both on Broadway and in the adulterated movie version is ineradicable, and we are not likely to see it bettered. Fred Gwynne, whose long-stage career since his undergraduate Harvard days has been largely devoted to comedy, here proves to be a surprisingly capable Big Daddy. He manages to encompass the role's vulgarity, shrewdness and compassion. Only when he gets to hollering at the end of the second act does he become unintelligible...
...skills demonstrated by the Harvard team in winning this championship encompass qualities very different from the debater's stereotyped image as a William F. Buckley-type of verbal gymnast. Instead, academic debate has been evolving toward emphasis on such scholarly values as thoroughness of research and analytic depth. Although presentation is still important, academic debate today is much more a practical exercise in the techniques of evaluating public policy than a contest in rhetorical and persuasive skills. Ideally, tournament debate may be viewed as a laboratory in which alternative ideas generated by the social sciences are subjected to the test...