Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left-right thing. We want our liberals to tout government and our conservatives to cheer faith-based solutions with equal confidence that they'll solve social problems, even when we know, in our hearts, each approach has its limits. We like the con. So George Bush is being coy. So what? Join the club...
...promise of being America's great equalizer, mixing students of different races, classes and religions in a single student body and passing on the nation's shared civic heritage," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "Cleveland's voucher program threatens to replace that with a system that teaches one faith in one school and a competing faith in another. That's because the hard truth of the city's voucher program, which is capped at $2,250 per child, is that the choice it offers parents is mainly a choice of religious schools." The legal battle may drag on for years...
Experts who track that shadowy faith warn that anxiety over the approaching millennium, the power of the Internet and a new emphasis on independent action rather than group effort may contribute to a kind of domestic terrorism that is harder to track and impossible to anticipate. At its heart are an unknown cohort of largely disgruntled white males, many of whom, like Furrow, have failed so many times that they've given up trying to succeed in the mainstream of American life. Spurred on by the rhetoric of a handful of racist high priests, they are turning increasingly to violence...
...nice if it were true, but again Mrs. Clinton's spokesman gave the game away. "The listening is the message," he said. What matters, in other words, isn't the listening. What matters is that people see you as you pretend to listen. This is not the good-faith tactic of a candidate in a democracy. In an illuminating coincidence, Hillary Clinton set off on her "listening tour" the same week that Queen Elizabeth decided to embark on a "meet the people" tour of her own. Like Mrs. Clinton, the Queen sipped tea with ordinary folk as her motorcade hummed...
...Hatter Senator, Jay Bulworth, threatened to inject color and charisma, and a dose of classic leftism, into a thus far pale political season. "The political system is so corrupted, we don't really need a third party. We need a second one," Beatty said, affirming his faith in Jack-and-Bobby liberalism and voicing a fear that America was becoming a big-money "plutocracy...