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  • Older and Wiser0

    Religious Right watchdogs may remember the flap in late 1996 and early 1997 over a symposium in Richard John Neuhaus's journal First Things. I argued in the pages of Liberty (September/October 1997) that two constituencies of what could be termed broadly the Religious Right were demonstrating very different loyalties. Neuhaus and his fellow Christian neo-

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  • Op. Cit.0

    A Warm Fuzzie I read your "Millennium Man" piece and felt that you must be named after Abraham Lincoln since some of the stardust of the Gettysburg address fell onto your pen for that piece … well done! LARRY PAHL via E-mail [Whoever said ego has no place in editing never got such an endorsement.

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  • The Lure of School Vouchers0

    There's nothing like the excitement surrounding the first day of school-it's an American tradition. Across the nation, millions of students enter a new season of classes, books, and exams after a long summer's rest. But late last August this tradition hit a speed bump for 4,000 private parochial school students in Cleveland, Ohio, when U.S.

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  • The Cost of Freedom0

    Ask the question again of the remnants of that same Second Ranger Battalion, now reinforced and assigned to Hill 400 in eastern France, late in November. The First Army had already thrown four divisions at Hill 400 with crushing losses. The conditions were even worse than at the Pointe. Still the Rangers went in, knowing

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  • Obiter0

    The moment had a surreal quality to it. It happened at Phoenix airport back in March. In transit on my way back to the Washington, D.C., area, I decided to spend some time in the frequent fliers' lounge. The general concourse was flooded with Sunday travelers, and noisy with discussion. But no amount of noise

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  • Code Blue: The Need for Conscience Legislation in Canada0

    What would you do if the company you work for suddenly decided that you should participate in acts that are diametrically against your conscience? It's a valid question, one that thousands of health-care and other professionals are now facing and without a legal leg to stand on if they refuse. An employee who refuses, as

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