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...Reserve a bloc of seats at the convention, perhaps a third to a half of the total, for delegates who would be named by the highest ranking party officials in each state and would be required by law to remain uncommitted until the first convention ballot. This uncommitted bloc would revive the possibility that a candidate could enter the race late, win only the last of the regional primaries, and still emerge with the nomination...
...Palestinian achievements. We have had two important revolutions. The first was educational. From hard, critical circumstances we have been able to create the highest literacy rate in the area. We did this from the refugee camps, out of our tragedy, our misery. The second was the transformation of our people from refugees to freedom fighters, able to resist for a just cause...
...nation's business and financial community last week, as banks hiked their best corporate interest rate to 20%, the ninth increase in the prime since the first of the year. The latest rise pushed the country's basic price for business borrowing money to its highest level in 141 years. The alltime record holder: 36% interest in 1839 during the Martin Van Buren Administration, when overextended land speculators and merchants set off financial panic, one-quarter of the young nation's banks failed, and a deep depression helped kill Van Buren's hope for a second...
...person's inability to keep it satisfactorily, all of which can not be explained as mere conditioning or self-interest. The source of that spark of conscience, theists contend, is God. The most celebrated exponent, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), wrote that each person's quest for the "highest good" implies the existence of a moral being as the necessary condition for this idea, who is himself the source of all morality...
...that it is possible for everything, including God's existence, to be explained, but that God's nonexistence does not admit an explanation. Even atheistic philosophers grant that by the latest rules of logic, the updaters of Anselm are right: if it is even possible that a highest conceivable being exists, then he must exist in actuality. The trouble is, the atheists do not accept that he is even possible...