Word: moralizers
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...component and runs in families, placing our children at special risk and mandating that dread discussion on the porch. If only the talk could be fobbed off on a doctor (a Mormon doctor, ideally) or someone else with the authority to speak. We former drinkers believe we have no moral authority--though unlike most parents, we know that we don't. We're walking worst-case scenarios...
...week that "the common European perception (of President Bush) is of a shallow, arrogant, gun- loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon." On top of that, Bush arrives the day after the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and capital punishment in the European mind makes the U.S. something of a moral leper. Still, Bush's aides believe the President's affable persona will disarm European skeptics...
Neither Carney nor Fife is particularly happy about the border patrol's informal ties to his group. Fife says it's "the moral equivalent of starting a forest fire and then going in to rescue a couple of people." The clergymen say they will not turn in to the INS anyone who comes to them for aid. Border agent Aguilar sounds just as wary of the partnership. Saving lives is one thing, he says. Helping aliens get across is something else. Says Aguilar: "There is a line they must not cross...
...Zacatecas. So numerous--and influential with voters back home--are the town's L.A. refugees that none of the wannabes dared to run without wooing people in California. "They tell their families their observations about us," says candidate Alma Araceli Avila Cortes of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. "They have moral authority with the people back in Jerez...
...cheating and stealing to feed the habit. Many were straight A students. Others dropped out of school and ran away from home. Alcoholism ran in some families; in others, parents were unable to believe that alcohol could be the cause of their 13, 14 or 15-year-olds' problems. Moral: It can happen to anyone...