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AMERICA HAS GOTTEN tough. The nation took a long, hard at its problems and set off on a bold, new course to solve them, casting away the dogma of the recent past to summon a genuinely different future. That is the way the recent arrivals in Washington see themselves and we cannot argue with their motivation. The United States is in deep trouble. But the ideas that have emerged from our transformed capital--from the seductive illusion of the Laffer curve to the cruel inhumanity of the Human Life Amendment --seem destined only to distort and corrupt what is left...
...embarrassed enough trying to duck the known feelers and gropers without being blamed for the equipment God gave them. It's also rough on the file clerk, trying to keep her arms close to her body while she handles the heavy drawers. Few of these young people can summon the bravado to yell "Cut that out!" or "Go pat your dog!" as this 66-year-old woman has sometimes suggested...
...territory. One of the many visions of Israel is the idea, so important in the long centuries of exile, that it is more than anything else a geography of the soul, where the horizon is limitless. Despite its current troubles, Israel certainly has the ability - if only it can summon the will - to make that moral horizon, the Jewish people's timeless strength, the ruling priority once again...
April 10, 11:45 p.m.--Police were called to the scene of an assault and battery on Banks St. the victim had been approached by two white males asking directions, was attacked by one, and ran to the emergency phone at Peabody Terrace to summon help...
...creators of the Constitution never claimed that the document they drafted in Philadelphia in 1787 was immune to change. Not only did Article V authorize amendments by Congress and the states, but it also promised that whenever two-thirds of the state legislatures wanted to summon a new convention, they could rewrite the whole Constitution. Thomas Jefferson thought some such revision was needed once in every generation. "Alterations may at any time be effected ..." added Alexander Hamilton in the 85th and last of the commentaries and cajolings that make up The Federalist. "The will of the requisite number would...