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...Republicans will regroup. They are already doing so. The Speaker's capitulation this week--his deal on a continuing resolution and hints that he will help raise the debt limit--may mark the end of the G.O.P.'s self-righteous, hard-ball strategy. Even the freshmen know they have been outflanked. Admits first-year Kansas Congressman Sam Brownback: "We probably should have done a better job studying the lessons of history...
...President are not sweating about who will win the compassion competition. ("Compassion is us," could be the White House's slogan.) They and other Democrats see conservative compassion as a kind of Republican confidence trick, allowing them to grind the faces of the poor while wearing a self-righteous smile. But the idea of compassion is genuine and will not melt away. Luntz avows that voters "want you to feel for them." So, advice to all Republican candidates from a consultant in compassion: "Think needy, not greedy...
...hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether...
...predecessors on the Board of Preachers, however, were not willing to see a Christian Church as a monument only to a victorious cause no matter how righteous, and wished posterity to be reminded of the human sacrifice of Harvard men drawn into the universal folly of war. They thus erected what I continue to believe is the most elegant and moving of all of Harvard's memorials located on the north wall of the Church and written in Latin, thus providing a decent obscurity against the sensibilities of those who would be offended, a bronze plaque reads "Harvard University...
...they communicate their truth with clarity. Memorial hall is a brilliant success in this regard. I take nothing from it, but eloquent as it is, it speaks only a partial truth. All of Harvard men did not die for the Union. All of Harvard was not united in a righteous cause. Men then as now were divided by ideals and ideas: united by their experiences of life shared here in college they were divided in conflict, and are united now only in death. It is fitting that a University church should strive to tell a larger truth, and it does...