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The compassion he preached was not part of a cold political calculus designed to forge a winning electoral coalition. Though much of what Bobby did was carefully planned, his pleas for racial harmony and social justice -- delivered to conservative whites in Terre Haute, Ind., as well as to blacks in...
The union, on the other hand, has asked employees to sign and turn in a card declaring support for an election to decide the unionization question, with the rider that voting to hold an election is a "moral commitment" to voting to unionize. Then, does the author think that the...
This time there were no tears, no tortured confessions, no anguished pleas for forgiveness. As Jimmy Swaggart took the podium outside his World Ministry headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., last week, the Pentecostal preacher seemed serene. The 13-member executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God had just voted unanimously...
Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to...
The Society of Arab Students' tearjerking stories of Israeli atrocities and impassioned emotional pleas fail to convince me that Israel should let the riots continue. Stories of atrocities may arouse sympathy, but they are no substitute for the reasoned discourse that will lead to a political solution for Palestine. SAS...