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  • Editorial – Access Denied0

    Like any parent, I want the best for my children. I want to give them every opportunity our society and my means can provide. I want to protect them from harm and insult, which often carries greater harm than a bruising tumble. I want them to have high values and a faith in the transcendent.

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  • Editorial – A Divine Imperative0

    They brought Jesus before the Roman Governor in the great judgment hall early Friday morning. Before the end of that same day Jesus would be nailed to a cross and lifted up as a common criminal before a jeering mob and distraught followers. But Governor Pilate did not yet see that conclusion to the day.

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  • Editorial0

    Though U.S. Supreme Court briefs are rarely noted for prosody or style (who confuses Macbeth with McCollum or Lycidas with Lemon?), occasionally a phrase or section achieves popular renown. The most recent example is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's immortalized words in Casey: "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's

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  • Editorial0

    Monday, July 16, 2001 12:00 noon: I'm at the U.S. Capitol to sit in on a press briefing in room H-157. Usually I take the Metro from our offices in Silver Spring, and walk the few blocks from Union Station to the Capitol. A little early, I decide to drive in and take a chance

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  • Ecological Sin0

    The late years of the nineteenth century and even the early ones of the twentieth were filled with the promise of a better, more hopeful future. “Therefore, gentlemen,” declared Werner von Siemens (founder of the company that still bears his name) in the late nineteenth century, “we will not be shaken in our belief that

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  • Earth and Sky0

    Colorful as our cover is for this issue, it puts me to mind of an old black and white movie. In 1957, Swedish playwright Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed The Seventh Seal. The title was taken from Revelation 8, verse 1: &”And when [the Lamb] had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven 

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