Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with no debt and a bank account," says Craig. "They fire the pastor, they get tax status and what looks like the Shady Grove Baptist Church; well, they are singing Amazing Grace and then saying Sieg Heil." Killing in the name of religious and racial purity is within the moral contract of Christian Identity, say experts. Authorities last week were checking if any of the three suspects had associated with the area Christian Identity churches...
...only reproach to be made against The Coast of Good Intentions is exactly that. It wants to tell the story of the coast of good intentions, and this moral undertone wraps the otherwise remarkably perspicacious oeuvre in a virtuous air--something that doesn't quite fit on the rest of Byers' literary turf. Were he intending to give a lesson in ethics by preaching them, these stories could not seem less undeserving of an exemplary attitude that they seem to take. Happy endings don't have to straighten their moral codes to be "good." In fact, normal as they seem...
...breath, parents say they perceive it as a public-health issue and want more information about sexual behavior and its consequences, easier access to contraceptives and more material in the media about responsible human and sexual interaction. And in the next breath, they claim it's a moral issue to be resolved through preaching abstinence and the virtues of virginity and getting the trash off TV. "You start out talking about condoms in this country, and you end up fighting about the future of the American family," says Sarah Brown, director of the Campaign Against Teen Pregnancy. "Teens just...
Many kids are torn between living up to a moral code espoused by their church and parents and trying to stay true to the swirling laissez-faire. Experience is making many sadder but wiser. The shame, anger or even indifference stirred by early sex can lead to prolonged abstinence. Chandra, a 17-year-old in Detroit, says she had sex with a boyfriend of two years for the first time at 15 despite her mother's constant pleas against it. She says she wishes she had heeded her mother's advice. "One day I just decided...
...John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Random House; 774 pages; $30), Ron Chernow, author of two earlier epic works of business history (The House of Morgan and The Warburgs), has produced one of the great American biographies. Rockefeller may linger in the national memory as a fading capitalist icon, a moral double exposure from long ago, but his story (and that of Standard Oil and the great trust-busting struggles at the turn of the century) becomes an interesting rear-view mirror at the turn of another century, at a moment when the Federal Government has moved against Microsoft and Bill Gates...