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...Senator Smith explained, the parties lack a coherent and considered viewpoint. At the moment, they are trying to stitch together a moral politics by introducing legislation that resonates with a variety of groups. They appeal to the middle class with promises of tax credits for school-related spending, to the lower class with promises of inner-city development packages, to soccer moms with promises of child-proof gun locks. The other social institutions ought to move now, before the next wave of polling data comes in, and the parties get it together...
President Kennedy: I can't understand their viewpoint. We never had a case where it's been quite this... Well, it's a goddam mystery...
...hope that he gets better as soon as possible," said Jason P. Young, a second-year student. "I like him a lot; he has a unique viewpoint because he is conservative, which is a welcome change...
What to do when one student's viewpoint (in this case, Hack's strict ideas about sexual modesty) conflicts with the university's desire to toss all views into an educational blender? Unlike students of yesteryear, who pushed for diversity with scruffy demonstrations on behalf of minorities, Hack and four other Orthodox Jews have chosen a thoroughly contemporary method of attack: mount a p.r. campaign...
...Robin Hood in reverse," George Church pondered whether he should collect Social Security payments he doesn't need, at the expense of the working poor [VIEWPOINT, Aug. 18]. But he conveniently failed to mention that the working poor also receive Social Security pensions, and many of those contributing relatively little receive proportionately greater benefits than those who have paid in much more to the system. Moreover, the great majority of those receiving proportionately less are not millionaires but ordinary people with incomes under $100,000, and the money withheld from their paychecks could have been better invested privately. There...