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...matter of pure logic, what the war wimps did (or, rather, didn't do) two decades ago says nothing about the merits of aid to the Nicaraguan contras or Star Wars or other issues today. But it does say something important about a person's character if he hasn't lived his life in accordance with his professed values. And it obviously tests his commitment to those values as well. That's why the political-robotics technicians of both parties expend so much energy staging tableaux of loving family life, though strictly speaking the number of one's children, grandchildren...
...matter of war and peace, voters are especially entitled to feel that leaders have lived their beliefs. War has always been a matter of old men sending young men off to die. Sometimes that's necessary. But who wants to entrust that crucial decision to a person who, when young, apparently thought it was necessary for others to go but not for himself...
...iron law of scandal is that no matter how grave or trivial the initial offense, the press will inevitably reduce the issue to a simple question of honesty. By traditional, George Washington cherry-tree standards, Quayle appears to be guilty only of shading the truth. But there has also been a troubling pattern of lapses of memory surrounding Quayle's public statements since he was tapped by Bush. Initially, Quayle claimed he could not remember if anyone helped him get into the Guard. In an NBC interview Wednesday night, he conceded that "if phone calls were made...
...removed from his days as a literal hair-shirt mystic at the seminary, he still believes the church is the one sure way to salvation. This, compounded by a moral disgust at his surroundings, leads to his most fundamental conviction: "The separation of Church and Dreck was a matter of life and death for the world...
...whole, the courts have not been sympathetic to Thompson's case. Most states favor blood relatives as guardians of unmarried disabled people, explains Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bio-Medical Ethics. "For children that's fine, but not for adults," says Caplan. No matter how much you love them, he argues, "when you get to be an adult, you wouldn't necessarily pick your parents to take care of you." Most adults, however, never have to face such a choice...