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Instead of giving Clinton the hoped-for acquittal--which could have buried the issue and discredited Starr--the jurors handed the G.O.P. a bright flag to plant in the Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because...
...second tenet which disturbs us. What the AAC seems to be saying here is that racism is so firmly built into the system that non-white minorities cannot be truly empowered in America without a paradigm shift. This shift would take us away from an emphasis on universal truths to a view of knowledge as simply a conglomeration of different perspectives. This is problematic for a number of reasons...
...Clinton wins a second term and if Perry resigns to return to private life. Deutch's senior aides insist that for now, his power is the spies' best friend. "At the end of the day, are we better off with John Deutch at the CIA?" asks his deputy Tenet. "The answer is yes." Considering how low the agency has sunk, what is good for John Deutch may be good...
...establishment of the Jewish homeland more than 2,000 years since the expulsion of the Jews from their home. Sadly, the recent events in northern Israel are bitter testimony that the Jews are still, in spite of the experiences of several millenia of persecution, denied that basic tenet of freedom and self-expression afforded humanity--the right to exist...
...Christian view," he says, "has always been one that God's spirit was involved and created a degree of accuracy that would not have been there otherwise." Blomberg explains biblical inerrancy, long a defining tenet of conservative American religion, as follows: "When the texts are interpreted in accordance with their historical and literary context, what they say is true." That allows him to concede that the Sermon on the Mount might have gone on longer than the Gospels suggest, and also to credit the differences among Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to "omissions and paraphrases" that were a natural part...