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...point, Gingrich proceeds to survey America's problems and blame them on various people. If you're familiar with his formidable oeuvre of TV utterances--his book is kind of a Cliffs Notes version--you can guess the culprits. The "bureaucrats" have helped destroy the family, undermine the work ethic and dumb down education. Meanwhile, the liberal "elites" (in a "calculated effort") have helped "discredit this civilization," sapping faith in American values...
...levels, adding a new dimension every year: better free-throw shooting, a base-line jumper, a new hook shot. The player who once said, "I like to dunk and dunk and dunk" now has a dozen shots in his arsenal. He is a center who plays with the work ethic of a point guard and the range of a small forward, and the evolution of his game has led to the revolution of the pivot position. Shaq is reminiscent of Wilt Chamberlain. Hakeem is, well, Hakeem...
...loss. There are few words we can say to thank our quintessential "Mr. Harvard" for his lifelong devotion to the betterment of a community that shapes each one of us; the best we can do is to leave this place hoping to have learned something of the values and ethic he embodies, and to act in the world as he does: selflessly, passionately, wisely...
...Lerner attempts to hold all Jews hostage to it. But growth comes from freedom in learning, not the didactic orthodoxy Lerner and West prescribed. Although they attempt to downplay their solution as final, they hold themselves as moral examplars for the rest of society. By for saking the American ethic of democracy and capitalism, the two have accomplished little in the way of solving any racial controversies in this country...
...nation that prizes its 'Protestant work ethic,' it's hard to believe that a religiously-delineated people that has also accomplished much through hard work fails to enjoy similar stature. When one considers the immense hardships that confronted Jews over the past century (and longer), their successes are still more incredible. Protestants haven't suffered a massacre of one-third of their sect, or complete eradication from civil society in most of Europe...