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...found much the same thing in their April survey. Voluntarism among college students is high--around 60 percent--but only 17 percent chose to direct their energies to a governmental or issues-based organization, and a scant 7 percent joined a political campaign...
...probably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which broke scant months after The View's launch, that confirmed the show's moment had arrived. Suddenly the country was talking about oral sex, semen and adultery in homes and offices. This talk led to hand wringing about "the coarsening of the culture," but it also illustrated the feminist dictum that the personal is political. It demonstrated--just as working women's juggling of job and home life does--that sloppy private matters can't be neatly divorced from public life. From 24-hour news to Politically Incorrect, groups of people arguing took root...
Cardinal O'Connor was best known as one of the Vatican's favorite conservative dogmatists. Most New Yorkers, however, had scant knowledge of his equally vigorous struggle for the traditional Catholic social-justice agenda. His New York archdiocese has educated, housed and cared for hundreds of thousands of Catholics and non-Catholics. He was a proud advocate of workers' rights and a supporter of unions. And his insistent importunings have advanced ecumenism, particularly with the Jewish community. He was an extraordinary prince of the church but always a priest first...
...these two forlorn children in the drought-ravaged wasteland of Ethiopia's southeast, the answer may well determine if they live or die. The pair number among millions of largely nomadic people in the vast Horn of Africa region, threatened once again by famine. Three straight years of scant rainfall have caused the blistering of large tracts of grazing land, killing off herds of livestock and resulting in the death of hundreds of people, a figure that could rise alarmingly in coming months. Several countries are affected, with Ethiopia hardest hit. "Villagers cite the death of camels as a proxy...
...With scant public debate, the U.S. is on the verge of building an ever more costly missile shield. You are forgiven the doubletake. You are not, however, back in the Reagan era with its dream of a Star Wars anti-missile defense system. Reaganites and indeed many Russians believe Ronald Reagan's threat to develop such a system contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union (a thesis examined by historian Frances FitzGerald in her recent book Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan and Star Wars and the End of the Cold War). Critics then scoffed at the viability...