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...pluralism of American religion and its effect on Roman Catholicism. Unlike Italy, Poland, Ireland or Mexico, the U.S. is as much Protestant as Roman Catholic. In a pluralistic country, in an ecumenical age, the Pope made no real effort to recognize other Christian faiths and meet with leaders of major Protestant denominations...
Because of these circumstances and as a result of an unsure style of leadership, Carter fell to levels of popularity lower than any other President in the history of polling, despite the absence of any major scandal in his Administration or any international catastrophe. His restrained and at times erratic performance has won him neither personal nor ideological devotion. His political weakness has attracted a large number of challengers in the Republican Party. More important, it has drawn onto the field a reluctant Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the flawed heir of Camelot...
Supporters of a public firm can also call the major private oil bureaucracies disloyal. During the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, American oil companies demonstrated they will not put their home country first--they restricted deliveries to the U.S. proportionally more than to other customers. It is simply foolish to leave all control of a commodity vital to our industry and military in the hands of men understandably motivated by profit alone. The traditional conservative concern for national security should be harnessed to support a federal oil company...
Great Britain bucked the trend along with the U.S., until it made the major North Sea discoveries. England's minister for energy noted in 1975. "No other government outside the United States has thought it wise to be completely dependent on the oil companies." But the U.S. would not have to explain a decision to participate in the oil industry only in terms of joining its capitalist comrades. It could cite home-grown precedents, too. The best is probably the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was a model of the yardstick competitor not only in price but in services and social...
...psych an I soc rel major hopes some day to be an ordained Lutheran minister like his father and feels that religion helps him keep football in perspective...