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...Central Committee. What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy editor of the once mighty party daily, Neues Deutschland. "He did not preach water and drink wine, as they did." While Modrow built an admirably efficient electronics industry in Dresden, top party leaders feared his popularity and resented his failure to render the obsequious flattery that they had come to expect from underlings...
Evidently, law students may believe in public service, but aren't willing to practice what they preach. More than 60 percent of last year's graduating class headed off to high-paying private law firms...
...Harvard community must begin to practice what we preach, especially with regard to the First Amendment principles of freedom of expression and diversity of opinion that this institution purports to cherish. Joey McCutchen Harvard Divinity School
...TACTICS are equally self-destructive. The ideologues' shrill voices and closed ears drive away the very people that they should try to convince. They preach to the converted. Talking to those who agree with your views may be pleasant, but it does nothing to change anyone's mind...
...religion. But when students want to organize a religion club in extracurricular time, the school should get out of the way." Many parents and educators believe the distinction is not so evident. "In many cases, student religious groups want the sanction of the school and a captive audience to preach to," argues Marc Stern, one of Westside's lawyers...