Word: politicism
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Once the sepsis of lawyers enters the bloodstream, then the body politic may abandon hope. Just as there is no mortal's life that can be said to be without sin, so hardly one vote in one precinct of America is beyond the challenge of legal ingenuity. Democrats don't...
Until our body politic rids itself of this corporate cancer, the one-quarter of one percent of the electorate that supplies half of all campaign contributions will continue to place limits on our social progress. It's time we place limits on them.
Here at the beginning of the century, we have the two top Democratic candidates and the Republican presidential contender touting their religiosity [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 21]. More worrisome, however, is the further contention that religion deserves a greater, rather than lesser, role in the body politic. Does this signal a...
"Corporations shouldn't run the government," Mark says with a lighted butt, stabbing cigarette burns into the body politic. Fine, but what do you gain by crashing the party? "In the short term, nothing. But you have to be in their face at every turn until you can build enough...
Such inertia often breaks down during what is known in the industry as "life transitions"--weddings, births and deaths. Dana Brosnahan, 28, of West Bend, Wis., sought an outlet after her mother's death. "I wanted to have something for my kids so they would know my mother," she says...