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...news comes out of the context of the time. Many leaders in philosophy and politics either deny 1) the existence of the moral law, or 2) its relevance to politics. They recoil from what they call the "absolutism" of any political system that claims any connection with standards beyond man's capacity to repeal. They point to the thousands of arrogant and wrong-headed politicians who claimed to be the voices...
...around Roosevelt, New Deal apologists among the press, and the high-riding labor unions, unerringly spotted a potentially dangerous enemy. He was ridiculed and vilified. He was highly vulnerable to attack because of his thinking-out-loud type of speaking; his loose sentences could be lifted out of context and thrown back at him with deadly effect. It was no good for friends to point out that he was a man of decent motives who, in the years he served in the Senate, developed from his own careful studies legislation directed to improving housing (the housing lobby accused...
...Haus Villigst is the care of teen-age apprentices (currently 29) who spend three years at the Haus, sharing the community life of the students. A third aspect of the program brings industrialists into contact with workers as Christian equals to air their problems together in the common context of the Gospel. In such gatherings it is not uncommon for Roman Catholics (with diocesan permission) to meet and pray with Protestants...
...Rhodes Scholarships were supposed to be an empirical part of [Rhodes's] imperial dream. Instead, they are playing a complex and important role in a very different kind of imperialism: that extended by an ancient civilization to lands often more powerful than itself ... It is in this context of moral influence and example, rather than of political alliance and expansion, that [they] may prove to be a force of cohesion far stronger than originally conceived by Rhodes...
...dark context of Kenya's bushfire "emergency," this was a mere border skirmish. But Simba, a wily, war-scarred veteran with at least one shattered police post to his credit, chose to lead the raid in person...