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...worth in selflessness. The gurus and cult leaders are hard up for new recruits these days; the divorce rate appears even to have slipped a little. Though church attendance rates have not increased noticeably, some Baby Boomers speak of a "new spiritualism" and grope, often privately and quietly, to regain the faith they lost in the secular '60s and '70s. In the '80s the Baby Boomers are not exactly generating a new Baby Boom of their own--the total fertility rate remains a low 1.8 births per woman. But because of the sheer number of Boomers who have finally decided...
...great power," is that its policy is guided by principles of freedom and democracy. He drew on personal experiences when he was an advisor to the Lebanese president Amin Gemayel (1982-84) to prove that the American officials whom he got to know personally worked tirelessly to help Lebanon regain its sovereignty and freedom from the occupying regional powers. For that, Dr. Haddad and most Lebanese are very grateful...
Right now, campus liberals really don't deserve to be called liberals. They should be called non-liberal, anti-conservative, or something like that. To regain their name, they must reevaluate their attitude toward debate and reconsider the tactics they find acceptable to further their goals. They must accept diversity of opinion, and they must listen to and understand what their foes have...
...United States has ignored Lebanon for too long and must increase its support for the nation if it wants to regain its credibility in the Middle East, a former high-ranking Lebanese diplomat told a Harvard audience last night...
Whatever the outcome, the Marcos legal miasma may become the lead case in an emerging area of jurisprudence that might be called deposed-dictator law. Many of the same problems arose in the effort by Iran to regain the wealth of the exiled Shah, but the hostage seizure abruptly ended any American interest in recognizing Iranian claims. As for the Haitian government's effort to recover an estimated $400 million to $800 million in the overseas assets of ex-Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Reagan Administration two weeks ago promised its cooperation. But that legal effort has been moving slowly...