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When he arrived at the Orlando airport Governor Bush patiently walked to the microphones with one of those "tax families" that have become a staple prop used to explain how his tax plan helps real people. Bowing his head almost as in prayer, he read their vital statistics from the prepared briefing book. "Juan and Brenda Hector make $45,000, have two children," read the candidate to the profoundly uninterested press corps. Soon you could hear the clubs coming out of their cases. Nearly the second he'd finished giving the two-minute introduction to what in a perfect world...
Notes: Kerr invited Rev. Robert Buccharelli '56 into the locker room before the game to offer a prayer for the success of the new season. Buccharelli is associated with the Center for Opus Dei on Follen St. in Cambridge. (For most of the game however, divine intervention seemed to benefit the Mountaineers, given the number of Crimson chances that went wide. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and perhaps Austin's miss at the end balanced the ledger...
...wasn't any one note Joe Lieberman struck that set the separation-of-church-and-state watchdogs growling. It was the whole sacred symphony. Sure, he began his maiden speech last month with a prayer and some Scripture, but no one wanted to pounce the moment the first Jewish national candidate mentioned God. That was before he cited George Washington's admonition last week to never suppose that "morality can be maintained without religion"--as if agnostics, atheists and secular humanists are by definition immoral--and called for the nation to renew its dedication to "God and God's purpose...
While no one doubts the sincerity of his beliefs, Lieberman seems to be dodging their implications on the campaign trail. He calls for "a constitutional place for faith in our public life," and yet he is against prayer in school and defends church-state separation. So what, specifically, does he mean? He complains that "Hollywood doesn't understand piety" and deplores its coarse product, and yet vows not to resort to sanctions to change that culture. And though many Orthodox Jews argue that abortion is immoral, Lieberman is pro-choice because, as he said in 1990, "while I might personally...
After Lieberman was tapped as Gore's running mate, he said a public prayer. The partisan audience seemed delighted. If the Republicans had chosen a vice-presidential candidate from, say, the religious right, and he immediately prayed in public, liberals would be outraged. Political correctness in America has fostered a tolerance for minority behavior that would not be condoned in the majority. DORIS O'BRIEN Vandenberg Village, Calif...