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...this begins with a well-organized, competently-run project like "Pinch the Grinch." It begins with two sophomore council members who don't fall into the pontificating, bombastic mode that has been the hallmark of the Undergraduate Council for what seems like centuries. It begins with students who will take the council's actions at face value, participate enthusiastically in its worthwhile projects, and invest their trust and commit their voices to a representative and credible organization...
...hallmark of this era is that opponents are actually talking to one another for the first time. While in Belfast, Clinton held a reception at which even the leaders of the smaller and more militant Unionist parties, people with strong links to the Protestant paramilitaries, were sharing canapes and drinks with Catholic leaders who only 15 months ago were their bitterest enemies. Clinton met with all the major Catholic and Protestant leaders and paid tribute to their efforts at holding the cease-fire. He spoke for 25 minutes with the Rev. Ian Paisley, the sour patriarch of Protestant unionism...
JUST HOURS AFTER THE QUEBEC REFERENDUM ON SEPARATION that came within a whisker of breaking up Canada--and may yet do so--President Clinton pronounced. "Ethnic diversity can be the hallmark of a strong and prosperous society," said his spokesman. "The President has often said that our ethnic diversity here in America is one source of our greatest strength..and hopefully it will be for the people of Canada as well...
...HALLMARK SENTIMENTS SOUND more like the musings of a smitten schoolboy than the clipped commands generally issued by a top Navy SEAL commando. But, though hardly coercive, the words landed a Navy captain in a cramped Washington Navy-Yard courtroom last week to face a court-martial. It was the first time such a proceeding had been brought against an officer of his rank since World...
...face value, it is difficult to understand why. Eighty percent of American Catholics, according to recent polls, disagree with the Pope's conservative stances on issues like abortion, homosexuality and the all-male celibate clergy. The unapologetic orthodoxy that Karol Wojtyla has made the hallmark of the church as it enters the next millenium does not play well to American Catholic audiences. Protestants and Jews, it would seem, disagree with his views that much more...