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The black gowns returned the favor. Catherine Tekakwitha, a 24-year-old Iroquois virgin who died of self-mortification in 1680, having been convinced that her animal nature was sinful and must be scourged, was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II three centuries later. So ends a chronicle in...
Abortion is too narrow a cause to rally the old Reagan coalition. "It stands out now," says conservative analyst Burton Pines, "because there is so little else to galvanize the right. But it's really marginal." Pines is one of many ideologues who are cool to Bush -- "We'll vote...
No one is better than Clinton at this kind of shoulder-patting, chat-about- the-family, how-is-so-and-so-back-in-such-and-such-a-town politics. In his second and subsequent terms as Governor, he sought out legislators in the halls of the capitol, acting as his...
The foreign investment tax is part of a larger revenue-swelling program involving a 10 percent marginal tax hike on the wealthy and some cost-cutting--all in the hopes of slicing the budget deficit in half during his first term. Much of the plan is exactly what America needs...
( This, of course, is the most controversial area of all. The taxpayer revolt is still very much alive, and many economists believe that raising taxes in a recession would slow the recovery and thus cause a net reduction in federal revenue. Still, higher taxation, along with reductions in entitlements, is...