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...political compromise been demanded of a body politic as the power-wary, pragmatic Founding Fathers required of the citizens of the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution is the great document of patience-with-a-purpose. It has inevitably helped mold the national character of the Americans who serve it-and whom it serves...
Virtually all societies in history have known homosexuality and, with few exceptions, have strongly condemned it-and yet often tolerated it. In 18th century London, for example, Novelist Tobias Smollett sarcastically found that "homosexuality gains ground apace and in all probability will become in a short time a more fashionable device than fornication." But the only society, apart from some primitive ones, that distinctly approved homosexual love was 5th century Greece. "We must blush for Greece," said the enlightened Voltaire. Even this much publicized example has often been overinterpreted. The homosexuality that Socrates and Plato knew rose only with...
...prove the effectiveness of its own credit card, the Bank of America earlier this year hired a comely San Francisco secretary named Ann Foley to live on it-and nothing else-for a month. Miss Foley went pretty far on the Bank-Americard: she ran up $1,728.98 in bills for the nation's largest bank, found that about the only inconveniences she suffered were having to hire cars instead of cabs, avoiding tolls and passing up soft drink machines. Now U.S. banks are busy trying to discover just how far they can go with credit cards...
...Most of the people you deal with respect the confidence, but once in a while an inexperienced man or a new one or a bitter partisan has to play a little politics. I think they keep it to a minimum, generally speaking, but one or two of them will do it-and boys will be boys...
...victims, West Germany has paid $1 billion in reparations to Israel as the symbolic representative of world Jewry. With only 30,000 Jews now living in West Germany, anti-Semitism is not an issue. But its propagation is formally outlawed-perhaps not the most democratic way of coping with it-and people go to jail for passing anti-Semitic material...