Word: preservationism
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The ongoing machinations over the sale of San Francisco's daily papers, the Chronicle and the Examiner, may be the initial death throes of a government policy that for more than 30 years has attempted to keep at least two newspapers in America's major cities. The Hearst Corporation thought...
Narayan is one such recruit. The son of a farmer, he went off to college carrying his family's hopes that he would become a lawyer. For a while, Narayan tried to play the part--"I would wear ties, go out drinking with my friends and keep looking for fun...
It's tough to justify spending hours in front of the television watching the NCAA championships when the world beckons. Nevertheless, it's a good thing so many students--especially Harvard students--do so. Nothing less than the preservation of American civilization depends on it.
Lincoln went on to worry that great and ambitious men, living after the great deeds of the Founding, might achieve fame through destruction rather than preservation of political institutions. An ambitious man of the loftiest genius, he wrote, "would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire [distinction] by doing good as...
Tagged as an environmental extremist, Gore has considered ecological preservation as a cornerstore of his career. He supports ethanol subsidies for Iowa farmers. He strongly supports emission reductions from gas engines. Lately, he has targeted suburban sprawl, emphasizing the psychological effects of the push outward from cities.