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...finance laws), or whether we want to continue in the current descent towards candidate-driven elections where personality means more than policy and political extremists set the primary agenda (think Bob Jones University). Without a party to bind candidates to specific policies, clear goals and a coherent vision, candidates freewheel through campaigns on their smile, their handshake and their looks, catering to the extremists on either side before rushing to the middle--never mind the hypocrisy inherent in that...
...most obvious result so far is the increasing?some say overemphasized ?concentration on inner-city ministries. Unitarian Universalist churchmen have approved an experimental plan that will allow seminarians to freewheel around New York for three years, taking courses wherever they want to, living in the ghettos if they choose, learning to minister to the world principally by living in it. A larger and more structured program along similar lines is apparently working well. Last year Manhattan's onetime conservative New York Theological Seminary made a major shift in direction by choosing as its new president George W. ("Bill") Webber...
...last 18 months is shown here in all its glory, from midget machines to luxurious tandems with no fewer than eight gears which can be changed with a flick of the wrist while the cyclists are actually pedaling. There is thus no need on these machines to freewheel while slipping into another gear...
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