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  • Rules to Live By0

    Baseball and advertising are two of America's most popular activities, so when California businessman Edward Di Loreto–a strong financial supporter of local schools and colleges for decades–was solicited to buy advertising space along the outfield fence of the Downey High School baseball field, he didn't hesitate to write a check. But when the 83-year-old philanthropist

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  • Round Table For Religion0

    Rome has long cultivated an image as a gathering point for religious power. And of course that power at times has been biased toward a single viewpoint. Not so the "Fourth Interparliamentary Conference on Human Rights and Religious Freedom," organized by the Washington, D.C. based Institute on Religion and Public Policy and its president Joseph

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  • Ron Carelli and the Duplessis Affair0

    Jehovah’s Witnesses have been victims of persecution in many countries, Canada and the United States among them. In the United States the persecution has often been a reaction, especially during wartime, to their lack of adherence to expected standards of patriotism. They do not vote, they refuse to salute the flag, and they will not

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  • Roland’s Red Pencil0

    Only a few days before this issue of Liberty went to press its longest-serving editor went to his rest. Roland R. Hegstad edited Liberty for one-third of its tenure. For many of us in the religious liberty world he had long since become a legend. For me, a Seventh-day Adventist editor, he had long been

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  • ​Roger Williams0

    In the film Reds, Warren Beatty’s biopic of the radical journalist and, for a time, Lenin sympathizer John Reed, we first see Reed chasing a runaway horse-drawn vehicle during his time with the revolutionary Pancho Villa. At the end of the film this image emerges once again, where Reed, disillusioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, once

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  • Robert's Rules0

    Has order been restored to the Supreme Court with the appointment of legal wunderkind John Roberts, and Samuel Alito an associate justice? After talk of the Nuclear Option, his easy confirmation seemed like the end of the cold war. The relatively collegial grilling of Judge Samuel Alito—the justice described as filling Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes—also

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