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...ROTC do not deserve any sort of put-down; it takes effort and dilligence to get up early in the mornings, sacrifice afternoons and weekends, and serve during part of the summer and years after college. ROTC students are perhaps the only students at Harvard who could both preach a sense of patriotism and act in its preservation...
...vernacular, sometimes vulgar, and even titled characters are stripped of grandeur and persiflage. The multiracial casting reflects contemporary America more than feudal Spain. Stylistically, the 20th century influence of Bertolt Brecht is evident throughout in the Marxist class analysis, didactic political sloganeering and use of song and dance to preach...
Bakr, a former policeman, founded the militant Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims, six years ago to preach a violent but moralistic antidrug message. He and his band are said to receive money from Libya. As gunfire and explosions rocked the capital overnight, Trinidad's 5,000-member police force moved into the streets to restore order. Government officials declared that they were in control, but at week's end Bakr continued to hold his captives...
...Nixon offered me any job I wanted. I said, "Dick, I do not want any job. God called me to preach." Johnson offered me the ambassadorship to Israel. Later on, sitting beside Golda Meir at a dinner at the White House, I said, "I am not the man. God called me to preach." And Golda Meir reached and grabbed my hand. She was so thrilled. I told Johnson, "The Middle East would blow up if I went over there...
That label won't stick on "mainstream" Clinton. Comfortable being whisked off in a limousine in the evening to Antoine's by lobbyists for RJR Nabisco, the quintessential symbol of 1980s corporate greed, he can then preach Democratic values in the morning. Clinton is the perfect front man for an organization that celebrates the work ethic of the common man while relying almost entirely on the Fortune 500 for operating funds. Although Clinton has recovered from his stupefyingly long prime-time address at the 1988 convention, he is still a techno-Democrat, one of a dozen...