Word: sacredness
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No principle is more sacred to American public education than the authority of locally elected school boards. Yet the Boston city council voted last week to abolish the independent School Committee and put city hall directly in charge of Boston's 57,000 public-school students, 80% of them members...
This approach acknowledges the religious origins of Christmas while giving equal consideration to other groups who consider the middle of December a sacred season.
Tyminski's showing has piqued interest in his book, Sacred Dogs, a truculent 260-page call to arms that he published at his own expense last summer. Oddly, the fervently pro-business book is dedicated to Roman Samsel, the former Latin American correspondent for Trybuna Ludu, the Polish Communist Party...
"Iraqi armed forces should maintain the highest degree of alert and vigilance," Saddam said, "because the forces of aggression remain on our sacred soil in Saudi Arabia, fanning the flames of fire."
By neglecting to consider all of the facts in this case, the staff opinoin states that freedom of speech is absolute. And indeed, it is correct to defend freedom of speech. But the First Ammendment of the Constitution, however sacred, cannot be protected in the absence of other basic tenets...