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...THAT'S THE CASE, SHOULD EVEN NON-PROTESTANTS MOURN ITS DECLINE? Not necessarily. By now, Protestantism's main nontheological message of radical individualism (or, as Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah skeptically lampoons it, "You can be anything you want to be ... and if you don't make it, you have no one to blame but yourself") is deeply encoded in our national self-understanding--and even upon other religions, once they have spent a few generations here. "Catholics for choice?" Snorts John Fonte, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "That's Protestantism." Not quite, but it is proof that whatever...
...Hail and Farewell Hugh Sidey's "The Gipper's Final Flight" was a lovely tribute to Ronald Reagan [June 21]. It was warm, human and touching and gently reminded us that Reagan's family members are real people who love, feel loss and mourn, but will keep on living. Sidey's words were a fitting benediction for a man who was more than the sum of his public personas throughout the years. Michele Chalmers Cary...
Hugh Sidey's "The Gipper's Final Flight" was a lovely tribute to Ronald Reagan [June 21]. It was warm, human and touching and gently reminded us that Reagan's family members are real people who love, feel loss and mourn, but will keep on living. Sidey's words were a fitting benediction for a man who was more than the sum of his public personas throughout the years. MICHELE CHALMERS Cary...
...eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, Walk this way. And when the country had to mourn, he led it in grieving that was eloquent yet unbowed, as in 1986, when he postponed his State of the Union address to speak of the Challenger disaster. "We will never forget them," he said of the shuttle's crew, "nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they...
Anthony Fonseca, a member of the Class of 2004, dies in an apparent suicide in Winthrop House. He was 21. Friends and family mourn Fonseca at a memorial service at St. Paul’s Church several weeks later...