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What is this mysterious process which consumes the precious hours of so many seniors as well as those sophmores and juniors who elect to enter the recruiting process for summer jobs...
...page eight, we see this statement in bold type: "Every year over two million requests for adoption go unsatisfied." Assuming this figure is true, these are requests for newborn, healthy, white children. If the Human Life Alliance believes that each life is precious, and each human life is "a lot of love," why doesn't it have a campaign to encourage other anti-abortion adherents to adopt the non-white babies and the six-, 10- and 15-year-olds who need love and a home? No such literature encouraging people to adopt was included in the magazine...
This quick reversal is less shocking if one looks back to November 1992, two years before the Republican victory--when Clinton ended 12 years of Republican presidential rule, winning back large areas of the South and the precious "Reagan Democrats." Or one could go back another 2 years, to the aftermath of the Gulf War, when hen-President George Bush had approval ratings in the 90 percent range, and not a single prominent Democrat would run against...
...Republican presidential hopefuls parade around New Hampshire like little kids lusting after candy. As if they thought there was nothing greater about the presidency than jelly beans. How sweet it seems in our common childhood fantasies to run the U.S. government. We value it like a precious jewel before coming to the understanding that the state is simply an organization defined by a geographical area that claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of violence and is respected for its power...
...HAMPSHIRE: For Pat Buchanan, the news could not have come at a worse time. With polls showing him running a strong second to Bob Dole, Thursday night's debate was supposed to be his chance shine before a national television audience and claim the lead. Instead, he spent precious time during the day addressing allegations that his campaign co-chairman Larry Pratt had appeared as a speaker at white supremacist and militia events. Pratt announced he would step down, at least for now, to fight charges that he appeared at a number of such events. The thorniest issue...