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...told listeners of his radio program, carried on 1,000 stations in the U.S., "Yes, what Mark Foley did was wrong, but it is still important to go to the polls and let our voices be heard ... Take about five people with you and vote. It would be a sin not to." The Family Research Council has been e-mailing "No Time to Be Complacent" bulletins and held a Liberty Sunday turnout rally at the base of Boston's Beacon Hill that was televised to hundreds of church-fellowship halls, evening services and small-group meetings. These leaders have calculated...
Despite their fundamental differences, conservative and liberal groups on campus share a common woe: Many students find partisan political sentiments difficult for the moderate mouth to swallow. A die-hard liberal throughout high school, I often feel as if my reluctance to write-off final clubs as dens of sin or bang a drum in a throbbing mass of protesters precludes me from identifying as a left-winger at Harvard. On the other hand, no part of me wishes to identify with the posh and elitist “ancient principles” of “Western civilization?...
...primary factor getting the blame is the preference of young people to cohabitate rather than marry. There are almost 37 million "unmarried, non-family households" in America. Many assume this means couples living in sin, but a huge proportion of these (83%) are actually roommates, not romantically involved at all (or at least not usually). By and large, they're twenty-somethings who are living with their friends while they hope to find the right partner to marry. Couples do indeed cohabitate before marriage - over 85% of recently married couples lived together first - but most get around to marrying...
...stock market, as in life, no good deed goes unpunished. Take the case of socially responsible investing (SRI). There are 79 stock funds that practice the style, which typically involves screening companies for stellar environmental and labor practices while shirking sin sectors like tobacco, booze and gambling. Sounds good, right? Yet SRI funds are often mediocre performers, partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same...
...risk of sounding like one of those smugly insipid moralists who extrapolate from isolated incidents a widespread societal malaise, these two cases signify a worrying trend of moral abdication. The alcoholism excuse is a way of denying human agency, of viewing sin not as a choice, but as a pathology...