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...merit fund was proposed to correct what some council members saw as a flaw in the grants process--that groups with no cash reserves are given money while financially solvent groups receive none...
...truth, Americans have always been able to put policies in front of character. Unless the character flaw was egregious and specifically affected the public, they could disregard it. The private life of the country's leader has often been less important than the direction the country was going...
...character flaw that brings Presidents down is not a lack of conviction but, perhaps, too much of it. The one unpardonable sin is hubris. "Filegate has legs," insists Republican pollster Frank Luntz--not just because the White House seemed to think it could requisition 900 FBI files with impunity but because it initially dismissed Filegate as a "bureaucratic snafu." It sounded too much like, "We are too far ahead in the polls to give you an adequate explanation...
...scientifically minded nitpickers have noted, there is a flaw here. The idea that Adam's choice of cuisine somehow affected biological inheritance involves the generally discredited Lamarckian notion that acquired traits get transmitted genetically. Still, a more generic version of Augustine's assertion--that sin results from biological drives passed through the human lineage ever since its origin--makes scientific sense...
...flaw in Chris McFadden's argument is that he mistakes the health concerns of the gay rights advocates and, indeed, of all those who give priority to the AIDS virus, as political concerns. Thus, he legitimizes dismissing the disease. Though the religious right claims that AIDS is God's answer to homosexuality, no health issue should be a political or moral concern. --Liz C. Vladeck...