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...Greens arrived triumphantly in parliament five months ago with a vision of themselves as the antiparty party, a model of selflessness and dedication in a political system they considered debased by cynical powerbrokers and greed. Since then, they have been discovering that the purity they preach is painfully hard to put into practice...
...Value Creation Society) is by far the most successful of the new religious movements. It has its roots in ancient Buddhism, and followers are included in the statistics for Buddhists, not in the "new religions." Unlike other new Japanese sects, Soka Gakkai is intolerant, going so far as to preach that "Shinto is a heretical religion that we must destroy." Contrary to Japanese custom, Soka Gakkai also asks its believers to proselytize, and has moved abroad: it claims 200,000 members in the U.S., mainly in California. Soka Gakkai teaches that continual repetition of the phrase Namu Myoho Renge...
...spite of his fame and enormous exposure, Glenn at 61 is a shy, rather old-fashioned man. In the office he never removes his jacket or loosens his tie. He seems austere, but he is not a scold and does not preach to anyone. When a member of his staff first applied for a job, he told Glenn directly that he was a homosexual. Impressed by his candor, Glenn considered the matter for a couple of days, then hired him. He resists all efforts to let himself be repackaged. Aides once suggested Glenn get a speech coach, and he curtly...
...modern pressures take their toll doctors preach relaxation...
...first half of this proposition is correct but the second half is not; and the Administration has practiced the second half even if it did not preach it. Without doubt, if anything like the Eureka College proposal were to be the basis of an agreement, it would be an improvement on SALT; it would lower, if not shut, the "window of vulnerability"; the world would be a safer place. But also without doubt, the U.S. position is utterly nonnegotiable...