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Ronald Reagan had an Eleventh Commandment for primary campaigns: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk is trying to go Reagan one better. Bewailing the "self-inflicted wounds" of the party's 1980 and '84 campaigns, Kirk last week appointed a task force of six Democratic seniors to monitor what the '88 hopefuls say about one another. Every month Kirk will meet with representatives of each candidate and try to persuade them to cut out the rough stuff. The party elders, said Kirk, will "publicly bring political pressure to bear" on any candidate...
...organization called Monar sponsored a demonstration against drug use that attracted thousands of young Poles across the country last September. In an effort to discourage farmers from selling poppy stalks, Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church has pasted up posters in dozens of villages proclaiming, THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT KILL. The church is also considering its own sanctions against drug sellers. Says Warsaw's Father Boguslaw Bijak: "There is a strong possibility that people who sell poppy straw will not be given a Christian burial...
...like there's an EleventhCommandment--'Thou shalt not criticize MichaelDukakis,'" he complained
...service last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
...contrary, moral imperatives are usually highly practical. "Thou shalt not kill" seems to me to be a pretty practical way of keeping human society together. Similarly, "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" appears to be a good practical means of sustaining communities. That separating Harvard from supporting an evil regime and benefiting from tyranny also may happen to make the ending of that regime easier does not really surprise...