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Americans are not passive. If we do not vote it is because we actively reject the measuring of our worth by our participation or support for centralized government. Real activism is always local. It begins at home and within onself. Sure, people do not necessarily know what is best for them, but this only reminds us that people are much less likely to know what is good for others. What has Altman so mixed up is that we are taking charge of our lives without seeking to be in charge of other people's lives. To a centralist who does...
...investigators concede, they are not even sure what part of the country the second suspect is hiding in or whether McVeigh -- who broke his steadfast silence last week only to reject two lawyers provided by his family -- is mastermind or pawn. Are the Nichols brothers more deeply involved than they are now charged? Was John Doe No. 2 the ringleader? "Somebody did motivate them," an agent maintains. Furthermore, "he could easily motivate two or three more militia types to do this again somewhere else. You do this two or three times, we'd be chasing our butts. This...
...studying prosody is as natural as a painter learning to draw before he learns to paint. That's not to say that they must write in form for the rest of their lives. But they should know it exists before they reject it. As a writer I find it useful to have all the tools that I can before making choices. Similarly, I want my students to know all they can before they choose what to accept or reject...
...think of myself as a reluctant Catholic, certainly not a satirical one. I think of insurrection as being a part of my faith, as much as piety. Obviously you can't be gay and be in the Church without rejecting a great deal. That's someting irreconcilable. Finally, of course, the Church is greater than the men who lead it, and there's too much about it that's helpful to me--prayer and communion, to name just two--to reject it outright...
Tadros and others in the Palestinian community must strongly reject those leaders in their own ranks whose stated goals are the destruction of Jewish lives and the state of Israel, and whose avowed means are violence and terror. We need a meaningful peace, not historical recapitulation, to heal the wounds of the past...