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...order is the longest-running and probably the best-loved political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today-amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions...
...Capitalism and democracy complement one another. They are inevitable outgrowths of the same moral tradition, and it is no accident that they tend to go hand in hand in the real world. He writes: "Political democracy is compatible in practice only with a market economy. In turn, both systems nourish and are best nourished by a pluralistic liberal culture...
...Tuesday night in late September and the city is talking sports. September is always a time of controversy in this city, and this September is no exception. From a quick scan of the radio talk shows it is easy to find the controversy and the arguments that nourish and fortify sports, raising it from the level of a pastime to a zeal, a religion...
...heritage of Harvard is its greatest strength, but also one of its mightiest flaws. The past year has shown once more that the University can use the resource of its great past in two ways--to uphold the values that should always exist here, or to nourish the forces of reaction and conservatism that have sometimes triumphed...
...Such attacks occur all too frequently in the U.S., striking one American every 21 seconds. They can hit suddenly, without any obvious hint of previous disease, when coronary arteries pinch shut in a spasm. But they usually result from a lifelong buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries that nourish the heart. If these coronary vessels become badly obstructed, the flow of vital blood and oxygen is reduced or cut off entirely. When that happens, parts of the heart are starved. It is the death of cardiac muscle that constitutes a heart attack...