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Students campaigning for candidates in New Hampshire might remember that the Democratic winner in that state's primary in 1992 was former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. Though his victory was overshadowed by Clinton's famous Comeback-Kid spin on his second-place finish, the late senator was an honorable and intelligent candidate. The irony of Governor A. Paul Cellucci's delivery of his State of the State address from the blue-collar city of Lowell, Tsongas' hometown, was therefore particularly striking to this Massachusetts resident. Cellucci's administration, which has been rightly charged with abusing the perks of power...
...midst of a series of angry statements directed to State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 and Speaker of the House Thomas M. Finneran, the governor's confrontational and vague call for the testing of math teachers in order to improve students' MCAS scores particularly emphasized Cellucci's reluctance to work towards intelligent compromise with his Democratic opponents...
Although official treatment of the religious in China has greatly improved in the last two decades, it remains profoundly objectionable. The Chinese government has tried to co-opt religion, especially the Christian churches, by creating state-sanctioned churches that obey official dictates and regulations...
While this appears to be a policy of tolerance, it is nothing but a crude attempt to exploit religion and transmute churches into another arm of the state propaganda apparatus. These state churches reek of the government's attempts to mold them into tools to maintain support for their regime. Their names and ideologies drip with the official mix of nationalism and support for the Communist party's authority. The official Catholic church is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association; the principal theological seminary's mission is to train clergy who are patriotic and support the Communist Party. It is absurd...
While the state's Procrustean protection mangles official religion into crude propaganda, the churches not endorsed by the government face persecution by a wide array of bureaucratic and security agencies. Their members are often harassed and bullied if they choose not to join the official churches, and even run the risk of losing jobs and having their children barred from school. The administrators of the underground churches, and especially the Catholic Church which remains loyal to the Vatican, are often jailed or sent to labor camps; a considerable number of Catholic bishops are currently detained, while another died last year...