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...lost in the middle-class suburbs and ethnic enclaves of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey. Holding those precincts means winning over independent voters who went for Bush in 1988 and Clinton in 1992 and delivered the House of Representatives to Gingrich in 1994. Whether a Midwesterner is vital isn't yet certain. But in general terms, young is preferable to old, Catholic is better than Protestant, and pro-life beats pro-choice. Which helps explain why some hopefuls are more hopeful than others. We assess their prospects...
There are some, however, who might question the worth of his inheritance. The revivalist, traditionalist branch of American Christianity that Billy Graham led from the obscurity in which it had languished roughly since the 1925 Monkey Trial is now the most vital and aggressive spiritual force on the national landscape. A 4,000-respondent poll by the University of Akron lists Evangelical Protestant as the most common religious self-identification in the U.S. (26%), followed by Catholic (23%) and mainline Protestant (17%). Beliefs closely associated with Evangelicalism--that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ, and that the Bible...
Similar arguments could be made in the wake of Blankenship's and David's arrest. Still, there is a vital difference in coverage between suicide and alleged drug dealing. Suicide necessarily calls for a sympathetic story. Although most would agree that suicide is not the answer to life's problems, most would also agree that one who commits suicide deserves sympathy. In my opinion, drug dealers do not deserve sympathy...
...every time the telecommunications industry shifts itself around, we are bombarded with news and analysis and advertisements on how the shift could affect vital decisions on our own individual telephone service. Here's how I feel about decisions on my own individual telephone service: I don't want to make...
...Then, during a flurry of debate on health care just a few months ago, I read a sad letter in the New York Times from a woman who, in trying to demonstrate how rapidly her aged parents had deteriorated, said that within a few years they had gone from vital and productive members of the community to people so incapable of handling their own affairs that they were renting a rotary telephone from...