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...Guardian Angels have yet to prove themselves a long-term threat to proper law enforcement. Their surfacing has focused attention on our failure to protect city residents. We must react to that failure by spending more money to pay more policemen, even if that means raising taxes and scrimping elsewhere. But we should not endorse the growth of an unregulated, privately run group of trained strong-arms. The Angels' leadership now seems a bit mysterious--some day we could conceivably find it dangerous. Their rhetoric is bold; it could become threatening. Before t-shirts become brown shirts and someone starts...
...OCTOBER 5, the first Monday in October, Sandra Day O'Connor will formally become the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court. Perhaps, on this historic occasion, you find yourself wondering how the other eight brethren will react to their new sister, and this curiosity could even inspire you to see The First Monday in October, a movie ostensibly based on this very question. Before you do, consider the following evidence...
...Irish writing) obsolete. When I was first teaching at Harvard, Catholic students could understand what much of Irish literature was about in its reaction to an old and authoritarian church. Now that church is gone, and it is hard even for Catholic students to figure out why writers reacted so strongly against the overwhelming power of the church." Reactions against the church, and against England before the revolution and the new Republican government afterwards spurred most of the great Irish artists, Kelleher says. "Now, if they react, it's to a government, which, though it may be trying...
...Marxism is their goal. Says Father Jon Sobrino, who teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañnas in San Salvador: "We Jesuits have not chosen an ideology. The basic problem is reality itself. When you see corpses or children starving, what makes you react is reality, not some abstract idea...
Many syndicated Washington columnists respond so predictably to events that they are merchandised to newspapers as liberal or conservative voices, as if editors needed a handy guide on how to balance their opinion pages. But all columnists sometimes react in unexpectedly revealing ways. A sampler of how columns are tilting this summer...