Word: faithfully
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...part, Gingrich did not exactly enjoy the full faith and confidence of his revolutionary guard, which is why majority leader Dick Armey was there to play the role of Gingrich's minder. For months Gingrich has used his hard-line freshmen as a foil in his negotiations. The White House has not always believed his hands were tied, but in recent days the tension between Gingrich and his troops was obvious. When the negotiators decided to tighten the circle, the White House wanted Armey gone. But Gingrich insisted he stay, saying that excluding the majority leader would be unacceptable...
...purity but against the solid touchstone of our common sense and sensibility. Our ideals must reflect the shared values in the hearts of most Americans. To my mind, these principles are simple yet profound: try to figure out what's best for our kids; clean up after ourselves; have faith in the power that comes from free markets and free minds; realize that individual opportunity and neighborly compassion can go hand in hand; and always be willing to ask the question, "Yes, but does it work...
...wonks are wonks, whatever their party affiliation. On Saturday morning, the Dark Ages carousers filed into Arianna Huffington's seminar on "Life After the Welfare State: What Replaces It?" When one participant declared, "Cutting government is the ultimate act of compassion," others sensitively asserted the need for "faith-based charity," at which point Ingraham was so moved she broke her own empathy ban: "It really choked me up," she said. "It's the first time I've seen conservatives really talking about that issue...
CREATIONISTS ARE BOUND TO GLOAT OVER the inability of evolutionary scientists to explain everything definitively. But science is only an honest attempt by reasoning people to find out what is going on; it inevitably requires the changing of an open mind as new evidence comes to light. Faith, on the other hand, is the blind acceptance of "explanations" without any hard evidence. It is preposterous for a closed-minded adherent of a prepackaged, supernatural "origin of species" theory to flaunt science's admitted lack of omniscience as support for a totally irrational dogma. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...Abraham, but what of the central figure of the New? Was Jesus of Nazareth a real person who trod the dusty roads of Palestine in the 1st century? Or were his life, death and resurrection, as recorded in the four Gospels, events that belong entirely to the realm of faith...