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...place fit for God's elect. In the 17th century the Wild West was in the East, but by the early 19th the frontier had moved thousands of miles westward, taking with it the same optimistic, sacramental fantasy, translating it into the pompous and morally corrosive idea of Manifest Destiny. The farther west you went, the freer you became...
...count, an especially eloquent and sorrowful passage in the impeachment record, accused Nixon of no specific crime but rather of acting "in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." Such abuse of power goes to the heart of the framers' conception of high crimes and misdemeanors, by which they meant offenses against the state and injuries to the Republic itself. Does Clinton's conduct reach that level...
...that's not what made last Tuesday so special. And the horse race with Sammy Sosa was a kind of interesting sidenote. But what makes this gripping is that when the lights came up, McGwire glowed. In a country whose history has included such popular expressions as "predestination," "manifest destiny" and "how to win friends and influence people," McGwire learned the power of self-assuredness. As he put it, he was meant to do it. That's hard to disagree with. That's what made it so difficult, and such a triumph...
...when Glenn goes back to the pad next October, he will go as just another crew member, a lowly payload specialist setting off for a week or so of work. But even NASA administrator Daniel Goldin seems to concede that when he inks the name Glenn onto a flight manifest, he writes more than just a name. "There is," he declared the day he announced Glenn's return to space, "only one John Glenn...
...important topic of discussion in Italy [RELIGION, April 20]. The carbon 14 dating analysis has not solved the question of its age, at least for those who will never cease to believe in the shroud's authenticity. In one of his Provincial Letters, Pascal wrote, "God does not manifest himself to men with all the evidence which he could show." Pascal also stated, "For it is not true that all reveals God and it is not true that all conceals God. But it is at the same time true that he hides himself from those who tempt him, and that...