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However, there is a more fundamental question that underlies the new law. Even if such a mandate will help, are we reverting back to some kind of Hester Prynne morality where one sin brands you for life with the Scarlet Letter of sexual ignominy and security-risk? This law represents the ultimate rejection of the possibilities of atonement. The small lettering of this law reveals a return to a system where the policy is: once a sex offender, always a sex offender, with no method of paying for the crime or beginning anew...
...catechism of Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land...
RICHARD NIXON USED TO SAY THAT IT DIDN'T MUCH MATTER if a politician was loved or hated so long as he commanded attention. "The worst sin in politics," he said, "is being boring." And that is exactly Bob Dole's problem. After his "must win" victory in South Carolina, Dole has made some headway toward the nomination he has lost twice before--thanks mostly to the flatness of the field around him. But if he fails again, or can't cut it against Bill Clinton next fall, the reason will be clear. It is Dole's startling inability...
...around 3 a.m. at the lonesome end of an Ozark bar, acquires the artless profundity of a cry for help. Patty Loveless started life as Patty Ramey, married drummer Terry Lovelace and later modified the surname. It turned out Loveless perfectly fit her musical taste. Her songs catalog every sin a man can commit, every pain a woman can bear. If you turn on the radio and hear a strong heart breaking, chances are it's the one in that plangent Loveless voice...
...very first game, I actually didn't realize I could shoot pictures from the box until after the first period had passed. A fellow editor spotted me on the uncomfortable camera box and directed me to the sin bins. There, I men Kristina Kalan '95, the Indy photographer. She had some advice...