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Even Americans woozy from the stock market's climb will not be deaf to these arguments. They still cling to their traditional concept of Social Security as a safety net, not an alternative to Merrill Lynch. More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll said they regard Social Security primarily as a benefit program designed to assure the elderly a minimum income during retirement. And that does not take into account that a third of Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees but widows and widowers, children who have lost a parent, and the disabled...
Others--and I am not among them--dismiss what they call the "black armband" reading of history, seeming to regard Aborigines as just another ethnic community. They also express concern for the future of the pastoral and mining industries which they see as threatened by Mabo...
...profit potential will be hampered because the seriousness of the subject matter has wiped out any hope for lucrative merchandising deals and Happy Meals. There will be no burning-bush night-lights. The filmmakers must also tread carefully to avoid offending the too-numerous-to-count religious communities that regard the story of Moses as their own. To ensure authenticity, Katzenberg says, he has met with more than 500 religious leaders, including a pontifical council on social reform at the Vatican and Fundamentalist minister Jerry Falwell...
...Second World War found democracy fighting for its life. By 1941 there were only a dozen or so democratic states left on earth. But great leadership emerged in time to rally the democratic cause. Future historians, looking back at this most bloody of centuries, will very likely regard the 32nd President of the U.S., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the leader most responsible for mobilizing democratic energies and faith first against economic collapse and then against military terror...
...frustrated adolescence; his artistic disappointments; his wound received on the front during World War I; his taste for spectacle, his constant disdain for social and military aristocracies; his relationship with Eva Braun, who adored him; the cult of the very death he feared; his lack of scruples with regard to his former comrades of the SA, whom he had assassinated in 1934; his endless hatred of Jews, whose survival enraged him--each and every phase of his official and private life has found its chroniclers, its biographers...