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...plan -- a 239-page brick of plain white paper printed last Tuesday and stamped PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL -- would represent the boldest, most expensive social initiative since the New Deal, bigger even than F.D.R.'s institution of Social Security half a century ago. It would intimately affect the health and livelihood of every American, while shifting billions of dollars in costs and savings among the country's biggest industries and tiniest shops. And despite occasional press leaks, the First Lady, assigned by the President to oversee health reform, jealously guarded the full text of the proposal...
...from parental responsibilities. The communitarian movement -- which seeks to shore up the moral, social and political foundations of society -- is closer to the mark. Communitarians, for whom I often speak, envision a family in which fathers and mothers share the tribulations and jobs of parenting and of securing a livelihood...
...machine gun and the sergeant's collection of whips. The only work to be found is making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port-au-Prince, but with each tree that is cut and burned, more soil washes away, and with it the village's livelihood. "We used to be able to grow cereal crops here, corn and rice," says Rene Coty, the local schoolteacher. "But no longer; the land has washed away. Instead we grow charcoal -- a crop with no future...
...fact, the prophet Mohammed, which the author of the comic strip so readily makes fun of, prohibited the killing of noncombatants in times of war. Not only were noncombatants not to be harmed, but also the razing of land and the destruction of trees or other means of livelihood were prohibited...
Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth...