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...cast one of two souls, the state government or the Catholic Church. The Office of State Ethics accuses the Church of breaking Connecticut’s lobbying rules last spring when the Diocese of Bridgeport protested liberal legislation. Distraught, the diocese seeks clemency and asks the court to prohibit OSE from applying these rules to the Church. To quench this inferno, the state legislature should exempt churches from its lobbying rules—because churchgoers aren’t powerbrokers...
...MSNBC, Fox News or any other media source that thrives on bad news and reminds us of it 24/7. Today, I will not check the value of my portfolio to see how much I have lost, or gained. Today, I will use the time saved by avoiding th[ose] things to read a book, watch a movie, take a walk, or take...
Schecter says that his Russian friends reacted to him in different ways. "some were just after the novelties of your life-style," he notes, "such as bubble gum, foreign stamps, and felt-tip pens. Or listening to music and bumming Marlboros off you. It was t(ose kinds of people we ended up parting with, because they weren't true friends. You tolerate this at first because you want to meet people and learn about them." He says that those who remained his friends, although originally attracted to him and the other Schecter sibs by their American luxuries, "weren...
Rose finally resolves the problem by taking her husband back. Somehow things change at once. She becomes more querulous and resentful; her beloved tacky neighborhood suddenly gets chic. But her motives are still homely and consistent. She relinquishes "the spiritual calm it had been a crime to ose" because she finally cannot deprive the children of their father-or him of them...
...number of veterans are sure to continue to believe that America owes the black soldier a debt for his service in Vietnam and for his suffering at home. In Vietnam, this young black is coming increasingly to believe that if America does not meet this demand peacefully, he will ose the means he has learned in the paddies and the jungles - violence...