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Charisma is no substitute for conviction. America loves an Odd Couple, if their most profound disagreement is over how often to vacuum: twice a day or never. But Bob Dole and Jack Kemp are no Felix and Oscar. They differ on fundamental matters like immigration and affirmative action. Big-tentism run amuck, the photo-op vice presidency played well at the convention. By October it was clear the marriage could not be saved, even for the sake of California's 54 electoral votes. Never wed someone with whom you already have irreconcilable differences...
...attention deficit disorder, one of the most common diagnoses requiring special help. "It's existential." Advances in medicine and psychology have vastly improved the identification of disabilities of all sorts in children. Technology is saving youngsters who 20 years ago would have perished at birth but today survive with profound learning problems. Children damaged by being born to drug-addicted mothers have added to the burden...
...Social scientists don't have the methodology powerful enough to know whether there has been a more profound effect on the person who has experienced the benevolent help," says Jerome Kagan, Starch Professor of Psychology and a member of the faculty committee on public service...
...both God and the patriarchs. More so than Jesus in the New Testament or even Jehovah in much of the rest of the Old, the Genesis God works in ways that many analysts, especially those willing to test the boundaries of conventional faith, find mysterious in the most profound and troubling sense. Jack Miles, author of the arresting God: A Biography, has written, "Much that the Bible says about him is rarely preached from the pulpit because, examined too closely, it becomes a scandal." By way of proof Miles cites the Flood in Genesis 8, wherein the Deity obliterates most...
...their claims to social cohesion and military effectiveness, arguments, for the summary dismissal of publicly homosexual members of the armed services are merely thinly veiled policies of discrimination. The military's uneasiness with homosexuals is reflective of a profound failing in our society. There is no substantive reason to exclude homosexuals from the military outside of the theoretical possibility that some homophobic people may be uncomfortable. It embarrasses me that government policy could be predicated on shallow and empty prejudices. We have worked far too hard to eradicate intolerance to allow such an insidious form of discrimination to fester within...