Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been engaged in this very public discussion now for nearly 20 years, and thus am no newcomer so the issues which only in recent days appear to have excited, the Crimson editorialists and the Black Law Students Association. The community deserves to know something of the back-ground of this issue, and of why I, at least, have devoted years of writing and speaking on the subject of the Confederate dead...
...tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds...
Starting in the late 1980s, drug dealers had claimed the place as their own, part sales ground, part killing ground, where they seized market share the hard way, with drive-by shootings and turf wars. At the nearby St. Philip Social Service Center, preschoolers learned to dive for the floor in "shooting drills,'' then stay there until their teachers sounded the all clear. By 1994 there were three or more killings each month on the streets outside. Standing now where the unthinkable used to be the unremarkable, police lieutenant Edwin Compass III looks around with a shudder...
...approach the millennium, I sense a third force arising that fits nicely with TIME's mission. America's pioneers created communities that were built around the spirit and the reality of a common ground. Since then our society has embraced two sets of values: an entrepreneurial individualism based on personal rights and liberties, and a community spirit forged at PTA meetings and Rotary clubs and countless other places where we gather to work together on issues of mutual concern. Tocqueville, I think, was wrong. These two strands of the American character are not in conflict; they are interwoven. They...
TIME should be America's common ground. We should look at ideas with an open mind, testing them not against some standard of ideological 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...