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...would also like to take issue with Mr. Brown's generalization that all Southern gentlemen were merely rapists and "craven degenerate[s]." Though it might be painful for the righteous to admit, our nation's father, George Washington, was a slave owner, as were Thomas Jefferson and numerous other prestigious Americans. Their greatness does not legitimize the fact that they owned slaves, but that ownership does not make them degenerate rapists. I also though that it was a bit presumptuous of Mr. Brown to call two sitting United States Senators "jabbering Neanderthals." Lord knows that many people disagree with...
THERE ARE TWO JEFFREY WIGANDS. ONE IS the grave, embattled, righteous man millions of viewers watched on 60 Minutes last month as he offered up potentially devastating inside information about the machinations of his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson. Then there is the somewhat antic teacher his high school students know and love. One day recently he was darting about the dingy science classroom at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, like a gnome on triple espresso, questioning and wisecracking in his rapid-fire Bronx rasp as 30 ninth-grade advanced physical-science students went over results...
...done it with a message that the party of freewheeling capitalism can't embrace. It doesn't matter whether he becomes the nominee, an outcome the party professionals still cross their fingers and say is unthinkable. He's tossed a bomb in their midst. The same righteous belligerence he turns against affirmative action, abortion and other targets of his culture war, he's now pointing at the Fortune...
That was then--maybe. Now Giuliani gets in trouble not by bending but by being too prickly and righteous; anyway, this former crusading D.A. would be the last politician on earth to take a goodfella as a bedfellow. But movies are still in love with the romance of corruption. They need to believe the gaudy worst about government: that Inside is the dirtiest, most divine place...
There is a latent danger in the Court's decision, a danger that minority religions will be suffocated in the name of universal societal values. As Carter writes: "Without [religious] freedoms...religious communities whose values differ from the mainstream might be unable to survive.... Our self-righteous certainty that we know all the answers might lead us to decide that religions whose values are too different from ours do not deserve to survive...