Word: vision
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Guinier's soon-to-be-published book, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice, uses her experience with her nomination to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department as part of an examination of the past and present civil rights movement, according to Guinier...
Discussion over coffee turned to the question of whose vision of America was right for today: Alexander Hamilton's--he saw a big economy guided by self-interest and a muscular national government--or Thomas Jefferson's--he championed responsibility to society and mistrusted taking too much power away from individuals and their communities. Hamilton seemed to be carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures...
Thank God for John, who, centuries ago, caught a vision of the new Jerusalem. God grant that those of us who still walk the road of life will catch this vision and decide to move forward to that city of complete life in which the length and the breadth, and the height are equal...
Other road warriors are unrepentant. Alan Carter, 43, a computer specialist from North Carolina and a self-described "aggressive driver," has his own vision of a perfect commute: one with no other cars in sight. "I don't want anyone in front of me. Any time. I think maybe this type of thinking has its roots in the minutiae of territorial rights and typical American individualism. But I don't really think about the deeper meanings. I just know that someone else is in my space or in the space I want...
...read by every American. Perhaps if Gore became President, he would approximate the levels of morality and genius that were exemplified by Martin Luther King Jr. Why would we want a President who is more image than substance? Our Constitution was written by people of sound morals, reason and vision. This is the kind of leadership that we need today. JOHN SEEM La Crescent, Minn...