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...hard to understand the nostalgia that many Americans feel for a return to the culture of small-town America - to its appreciation of education, traditional arts, the work ethic, hunting, community spirit and moderate churchgoing? Moderation and cooperation within the international community are what we so desperately need in the U.S. That is the change that McCain and Palin would bring. Jim Clemons, FREDERICKSBURG...
...second half-hour, Heaney read several yet to be published poems, inspired by his translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. He closed the afternoon with a reading of ‘Postscript,’ from his volume ‘The Spirit Level,’ published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues to influence his poetry as both a setting and a mental state. Although he grew up on a farm and went to a country primary school, he won a scholarship...
...Coming to a new agreement, however, will require getting past some very bruised feelings. The GOP leadership was quick to point outraged fingers, citing Speaker Nancy Pelosi's closing speech before the vote as breaking the bipartisan spirit of the proceedings. "The Speaker had to give a partisan voice [sic] that poisoned our conference, caused a number of members we thought we could get to go south," Boehner ranted to reporters after the vote - as if partisan speeches had never before been heard on the House floor...
...Team sports provides a constructive and regulated environment for man’s natural competitive spirit, cleansing what is barbaric in that impulse with intricate rules and attendant penalties all while ennobling the individual desire to succeed by directing it toward a larger, collective goal. Sportsmanship—which today is explained to youngsters as having grace in defeat—affects and develops one’s personal sense of honor: It is better to lose with dignity than to win at all costs...
...only when we find faith in something larger than ourselves. We’ve seen it in the Exodus of Jews from Egypt, in the flight of slaves from bondage, in the protests of workers and women, in Freedom Rides and peace marches. We felt it in the rebellious spirit of our founding mothers and fathers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, and in the heroic resilience of Stonewall’s children in the face of AIDS and Reagan and “family values.” Too many of us have gone, but many more...