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...last Americans came out, they were freed from their symbolism -- no longer did they stand for national helplessness and failed presidencies, for ill-fated schemes and a foreign policy with its principles held hostage. Instead they were real, grateful, living people with daughters they had never seen, scars that will never heal, long nights full of lessons they will never forget...
...find him still more to be commended for having freed the Christian moralist from the tiresome necessity of having some principle for distinguishing between a legitimate and an illegitimate use of Scripture...
...current political climate is filled with exited obituaries for Great Society Liberalism, about how government aid-that is, our aid-to the needy,the unemployed and the homeless is wasteful, inefficient and ultimately incapable of making any real difference. Freed from the shackles of empathy and compassion, many have begun to ask, Why should I feel obligated to support (in form of taxes, for example) the poor or the homeless? Why don't they make it on their...
Lederer relates a cornucopia of anecdotes about literary figures. Stories about Helen Keller who was freed from her "dark, silent prison" and taught to speak, read and write, or George Orwell, who laid down six of the most important ground rules of the writer's art, instill the work with human interest...
Critics say limitation may create an even less desirable group of unresponsive incumbents -- the 31,000 congressional staff members whose power as a permanent government is already menacing. But freed from the never ending necessity to raise funds for their next campaign, legislators might find the time to lead rather than follow their staffs...