Word: moral
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...moral soldier and practical man, Yitzhak Rabin will be remembered as a fighter for peace who died for his efforts. His platform of Israeli reconciliation with its Palestinian neighbors led both to his election and his assassination. Rabin was the leader of a noble cause who attacked the most complex matters of international diplomacy with a bold vision and a determined character. We are sorry to have lost this fine...
...also that he has grafted it onto his trademark message of God, country, family and faith; in this way he is engaged in a neat bit of political matchmaking between the economic populists and the social conservatives. Many of those drawn to his rally are responding to the moral positions Buchanan staked out in 1992, when he famously declared that "in that struggle for the soul of America, Clinton and Clinton are on the other side, and George Bush is on our side." He plays to the family-values partisans, the isolationists, the creationists and the gun owners...
...passage). Then he provides him with adventures that analogize, rather than slavishly imitate, those of his literary model. This figure, called Henri Fortin, is throughout aware of his resemblance to Hugo's original. He sees movie versions of the story, and people keep telling him that his physical strength, moral fortitude and frequent bad luck remind them of Valjean. He wouldn't know. He's illiterate, a retired boxing champion who drives a moving...
REMEMBER ROBERT Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano and Karen Finley, those artistic troublemakers who were targeted by Senator Jesse Helms and other moral guardians campaigning against government funding of "obscene" art? They're back. But in this case, they're not hitting up the National Endowment for the Arts for money. Their work, along with that of nearly 80 other contemporary artists, can now be ordered via an 800 number. The source of this marketing ploy is an innovative free-market effort to compensate for the dicey state of federal arts funding: the Art Matters gift catalog...
There should not have been any reason to fear that the Quebec referendum, with its misleading question and ridiculously low threshold of success, would have any serious moral legitimacy. And this is to say nothing of the secession requirements in international law that a minority be persecuted, that the parent country concur and that the secession receive broad international recognition...