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...Marcos plundering seems ultimately a cheerless affair, covert though sometimes ostentatious, avaricious though often prodigal. Christ said, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." Marcos did not wish to wait. He turned Christianity upside down. He took nourishment from the mouths of the poor and transformed it into his treasure on earth. Such venality is not a matter of either Freud or metaphysics. It is just a brutal habit, the crocodile reflex of a man too long in power. It is a subdivision...
...endorse rugged individualism as the engine of hard work, but in fact the Puritan fathers were mainly concerned with individuals as contributors to a social compact. From John Cotton's The Way of Life (1641): "If thou beest a man that lives without a calling, though thou hast two thousands to spend, yet if thou hast no calling, tending to publique good, thou art an uncleane beast." From John Winthrop (1630), the first American to see the new land as a "City upon a Hill": "If thy brother be in want and thou canst help him, thou needst...
...Crimson icemen are opportunists and willing to take advantage of the last year of this generous ECAC arrangement that has several Ivy division teams scrambling to finish a game act 500 and then hast a powerhouse in the friendly confines of its own arena...
...only confuses and perhaps hurts the case one might make to modify Princeton's honor system. At best, Clayton is guilty of an ill-advised and suspicious move. At worst, of course, he's just guilty. But if Princeton insists on an eleventh commandment--"thou shall state that thou hast not cheated"--then it owes its students the opportunity to deal with people more experienced in university matters and less likely to be swayed by faculty pressures than an average sophomore, who--unknown to all--just may have cheated on an exam himself...
...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed...