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...will be tempting to call Falwell's passing the end of an era, but that risks missing the larger point. The movement he helped lead was never monolithic, or as tidy as its critics imagine - or obedient to earthly powers. In every generation, Christians have wrestled with the question of whether their efforts are better spent changing laws or changing hearts, and how to proceed when those goals seem to conflict. Falwell enthusiastically practiced the politics of division, flinging damnation at those who disagreed with his vision of a Godly America. Now a rising generation of Christian leaders is looking...
...changed Gore for the better. He dedicated himself to a larger cause, doing everything in his power to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, and that decision helped transform the way Americans think about global warming and carried Gore to a new state of grace. So now the question becomes, How will he choose to spend all the capital he has accumulated? No wonder friends, party elders, moneymen and green leaders are still trying to talk him into running. "We have dug ourselves into a 20-ft. hole, and we need somebody who knows how to build a ladder...
...year to work as a paralegal and an aide to his congressman in Washington D.C.—paying his own rent and cooking his own meals along the way—he says his experience allowed him to experience some of the “larger responsibilities of life...
...says that the experience changed the way she approaches her academic career and her larger view of her position in the global context...
...that in their official capacity as UC members violates their mandate and breaks the trust that has been put in them by undergraduates.” For his part, Petersen said yesterday that the ultimate source of the confusion about the propriety of UC participation stemmed from larger ambiguity about how the student body can make its voice heard on labor issues. “What we were all struggling with was the simple fact that there is no legitimate means of influencing labor relations as students within the community,” he said. The Harvard College Democrats have...