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This event highlights some interesting questions about the nature of the ill-defined tool used to suppress information called "off-the-record." How has it come to pass that journalists--whose first obligation has always been the dissemination of information--suddenly seem to believe that people have some kind of inalienable right not to be quoted...
...Indians' hope for the future is the education of their children. Education is a sacred concept for Indians. It is a tool, the only way for them to cope with Western ways, the only way to survive...
...Indian Health Service (IHS) is a new tool of war for the American government. It was established under treaties to complement existing native medicine and to protect Indian culture from the new diseases brought by the Europeans. IHS has proved hopelessly inadequate for Indian needs. Government control became neglect of Indian people, creating widespread health problems. As the Treaty Council's Genocide Document, submitted to the conference, states, "Some 38 percent of Native children were found to have serious hearing handicaps by age four. The death rate for tuberculosis is four times as high among Indians as among non-Indians...
Raymond Holliday, chairman of Hughes Tool Co., says Carter "seems never to be willing to compromise or accept advice. He is reluctant to admit that it is possible for him to make a mistake." Gene Woodfin, chairman of Marathon Manufacturing Co., a Houston-based maker of drilling rigs, caustically characterizes Carter's attitude: "He's 100% right and everyone else is 100% wrong, and he's the President and we have...
Becoming a Christian means accepting Christ as a living presence and, Donovan says, making a "total commitment, becoming a tool for the kingdom." Many Christians also believe in the second coming of Christ, although Christians have differences of opinion about this. Daniel Pierce '78 explains his view on the second coming, which he characterizes as conservative and based directly on a reading of the Corinthians section of the Bible. First, there will be rapture, he says. "All the Christians on earth will disappear. We will be caught up to meet Him in the air." A seven year period of tribulation...