Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff maintains it is remaining neutral on a personal, private issue. In reality, the staff has resolved to protect the right to choose abortion at any time, for any reason and over any other cries for justice. A just society, however, will weigh the "right" to abortion against other legitimate concerns, including the right of another developing life. It will then consider how to nurture that life--both in the womb and after birth--through proper education, medical insurance and child care...
...same is true for the Confederate flag, for it represents the courage and sacrifice of men who fought and died to protect their home, their family, their state and the belief in honor. My great-great-grandfather lost his arm fighting under that flag, not to protect slavery for he was too poor to even consider owning a slave, but to protect what he understood to be the rights extended to his state by the Constitution...
Feelings of impotence born of the inability to protect those we love--Megan, the young girl whose name lives on in the law her death inspired, is a case in point--have led us to gloss over complexities and grasp at the closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...
Last Saturday the Brothers tried to stage a memorial service by sending boats and planes into the Florida Straits near the site of the shoot-down. U.S. Coast Guard cutters accompanied the flotilla, and American fighter-jets were in the area. Their mission was not only to protect the mourners but to discourage grandstanding on their part. As it happened, the risk of another incident was minimal, since bad weather forced the Brothers' boats and planes to head back to Florida before they got close to Cuba. The damage has been done, however, and it seems nothing can stop Cuban...
...able to appreciate the show for what it reveals about the stagey sanctimony of many public figures, and about the public's eagerness to be exploited for fame or fortune; these are valuable life lessons. The real problem with the V-chip system is that it won't protect kids or anyone else from TV's most pernicious messages, like the right cream rinse will make you happier, or there are no problems that can't be solved in half an hour. You know, the kind of quick-fix thinking that might lead someone--a politician, say--to believe that...