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...Bush and his pitch for a "fresh start." They swung heavily to Clinton in 1996, when he married values and economics by making things like the Gingrich-proposed curbs in Medicare spending a test of values. If Gore too can and combine values and economics, he'll pull these latter-day Erin Brockoviches into his camp...
...England cemeteries and Barker Center seminars, their memories preserved only through The Crucible and the grimly authoritarian spire of Mather House. But the Puritan impulse, with its mix of overheated moralism and apocalyptic fervor, is alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their more theologically minded forebears always believed: namely, that America is on a fast-track express to hell. Their devil is no longer Lucifer, who so terrified the divines of the 17th century...
...Bush and his pitch for a "fresh start." They swung heavily to Clinton in 1996, when he married values and economics by making things like the Gingrich-proposed curbs in Medicare spending a test of values. If Gore too can and combine values and economics, he'll pull these latter-day Erin Brockoviches into his camp...
...links with the terrorist group. Since then, the group has killed an additional 22 Greek and foreign nationals, including four American officials. Saunders, 53 and the father of two, was the first British envoy to be slain by the notorious terrorists, who are occasionally portrayed by Greek media as latter-day Robin Hood ideologues, battling Western overlords and NATO in pursuit of Greek interests, and in defense of Greece's onetime close allies the Serbs. When NATO launched its 1999 bombing blitz of Yugoslavia, 17 November, plus a sideshow of some 80 extremist groups, retaliated in Greece with a spate...
...disappointed by the piece "the Invasion of the Saints" in your Mississippi River cover story. The rebuilding by the Mormons of the great Nauvoo Temple is in no way an invitation for the Latter-day Saints membership to move into or return to the Nauvoo area. Nor are the Mormons trying to achieve a redemption for past atrocities. The L.D.S. leaders are concerned for the well-being of the Nauvoo community. SHERYL WILSON Kingman, Ariz...