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  • Bumper Sticker Indignation0

    My wife and I had just bought an aging Toyota in fairly good working order, for a reasonable price. After our busy week of car hunting and a full work schedule, we decided to unwind over lunch that Friday afternoon at a new Korean restaurant in town. For a while we were the only customers

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  • The Jury Delivers: Not UPS0

    As a trial lawyer, there is nothing quite like the sheer panic of the interval between getting the call from the judge's chambers that the jury has a verdict and then hearing it read aloud in court. Friday, June 30, 2006, was no exception. The jury had been deliberating on the case since early Thursday

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  • Oliver Cromwell0

    The middle years of this decade, 2005-2007, see the 350th anniversary of three very significant episodes in the history of political and religious liberty: The English intervention in the Principality of Savoy-Piedmont (the forerunner of modern Italy) to halt persecution of the Waldenses––arguably the first humanitarian intervention in history; The readmission of the Jews into

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  • Educator or Criminal?0

    On March 28, 2006, a court in Hamburg, Germany, sentenced a 43-year-old father to a week in jail because his three older children, aged 10, 12, and 14, have not attended school for four years. Instead, he has taught them at home. If, despite the jail term, he still boycotts the state school, his wife

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  • The Tragic Flaw0

    Just a few days ago I walked alongside my father as hospital orderlies wheeled him into the operating room for rather serious surgery*. He had been very ill for a week or two and I don't think he had much sense of current world events. But his mind was active and he couldn't stop talking

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  • No Freedom Without Religious Freedom0

    It's no surprise that the many Seventh-day Adventists here tonight seek the freedom to practice their faith—after all, Adventists have often faced serious discrimination around the world. What is remarkable, what is truly impressive about your work, is that you seek freedom not just for people of your faith, but also for those of all

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