Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sweatshops are the fallen angels of capitalism--the pursuit of profit and efficiency gone astray--but they are the product of capitalism nonetheless, and as such they should shake people's unflagging faith in our economic system. The two of us struggle to fathom placing such blind faith in a system which produces enormous income disparities, divides American social and economic life along racial lines and puts a Starbucks on every affluent corner...
...Cabot Henderson wrote the following in a March 16 salient article: "The new complex is being built because there is a demand for quality housing and Khaki pants which is not currently being met in Central Square. Meddling with these irrepressible forces results in distortion." This type of simplistic faith in the Truth of the market, and espousal of the value of submitting to the machinations of the market, disturbs us almost as much as sweatshop horror stories...
...sweatshops shake our faith in our economic systems...
...undeniably made mistakes, based on a stubborn belief in himself. Yet his stature and integrity remain such that these failings tend to enhance rather than diminish his humanity. Camus once said one man's chains imply that we are all enslaved; Mandela proves through his own example that faith, hope and charity are qualities attainable by humanity as a whole. Through his willingness to walk the road of sacrifice, he has reaffirmed our common potential to move toward...
...media--until the secular system peels away and a truly Islamic order emerges. Among the increasing numbers of ordinary Muslims frustrated by unemployment and political repression, the fundamentalists' message has a striking appeal: citizens can change their lives for the better by doing nothing more than harnessing their traditional faith in Allah...