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...business in America has been hurt in past months by recession and inflation, but no wound has been more grievous than the revelations that it has used its money to influence public officials at home and abroad. One scandal has surfaced after another with deplorable regularity, as major corporations have been found making illegal political contributions and payoffs. The predictable results are a serious erosion of public confidence in, and a sharpening cynicism about, the motives of businessmen. To make matters even worse, the penalties imposed on guilty companies have been almost ridiculous-fines so small that they do little...
...learn however that the Union Leader did not think Fisher was playing with half a deck; as a result he wound up with 12 per cent of the vote...
...your pardon of Nixon, who was, in my opinion, the worst enemy the American people have ever had, and your refusal to restore full citizenship to our real Heroes: those who refused to murder, maim and wound countless millions of Asian men, women and children, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of our own Boys, who suffered a similar fate, seem to be typical of your first year as President. This I deeply deplore. The above Asian people of whom I write, Sir, have never harmed, or threatened to harm in any way our people. They could not have...
...Wound. The annual proliferation of decorations has led critics to observe that the government selects winners with the same skill as the blindfold player in a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. Periodic attempts to cut back on medal giving, however, have usually failed. True, the Revolution halted the French kings' practice of showering crosses, ribbons, stars, neckpieces, plaques and palms on court favorites, but not for long. Revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just made the bizarre proposal that decorations awarded to those wounded in the revolutionary struggle be affixed to the exact area of the wound...
Mother Teresa and her sisters are not without their critics. To some, the nuns and brothers are merely bandaging a civic wound that needs drastic surgery. "We are not trying so much to do social work," Mother Teresa explains, "as to live out that life of love, of compassion, that God has for his people." The poor, she says, suffer even more from rejection than material want. "If we didn't discard them they would not be poor. An alcoholic in Australia told me that when he is walking along the street he hears the footsteps of everyone coming...