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...changes in his Cabinet. "I dreaded this duty," he wrote later. Carter softened the task by gathering his Cabinet and asking them all to offer their resignations for consideration as he reordered things. Bad idea, he later admitted, after he had accepted the resignations of Treasury Secretary Mike Blumenthal, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. He should have done it quickly and individually...
...theological framework for the use of force, Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, offers moral rules for the conduct of combat. Early Muslim authorities vigorously opposed the mistreatment of children, women, diplomats and hostages and inveighed against poisoned weapons or abuse of natural resources (in enemy territory "do not hew down a date palm nor burn it . . ."). On those matters, and many others, Saddam Hussein is not much of a Muslim, whatever his claims...
...phrases that sound especially odd to modern ears, such as "I will accept no bull from your house" (referring to animal sacrifice in Psalm 50) and "once I was stoned" (St. Paul in II Corinthians 11, speaking of his stoning). Gone as well are some tongue twisters ("you who hew" in Isaiah 22) and ambiguities, like Zechariah 3's "Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed in filthy garments." (Joshua's garb was filthy, not the angel's.) The poetic exclamation "behold" has given way to the prosaic "look." Sex is bluntly called "intercourse...
Unfortunately, the liberal response to Reagan's message usually went something like this. Reagan says, "There's a useless layer of bureaucracy up on top of HEW [the Department of Health, Education and Welfare]. And it costs HEW three dollars in overhead to deliver one dollar to a needy person...
...forums, and instead chose to make public charges I consider slanderous. I have full confidence that any fair-minded person who heard me out on any of these issues would not find me "racially insensitive." The real source of the charges, I am convinced, is that I failed to hew to a line that the disgruntled students took to be Gospel...