WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT to see-in the same issue with Jim Wallis' article on civility in political discourse-the attack by Wallis on Clinton's decision to sign the welfare bill.
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John F. Struzik 11-01-1996
AFTER READING Ed Spivey Jr.'s "H'rumphs," September-October 1996, I am disturbed by his "tongue in cheek" endorsement of Bill Clinton for re-election as president.
Jim Rice, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 11-01-1996
The Pentagon snuck out an admission that the students at the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, once used manuals advocating torture, assassination, and kidnapping as t
John Jago 11-01-1996
MY SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER Sojourners arrived today, and as usual there was plenty to think about.
Susie Fetter 11-01-1996
THANKS TO Bert Golding, David Pultz, and Joel Swadesh for writing to protest your harsh criticism of President Clinton's veto of (legislation restricting) third-trimester abortion.
Laurel Blaydes 11-01-1996
THE ARTICLE "From the Church to the Union Hall" ends with the words, "...for surely, in new ways and new places, the songs of working people will rise again."
Mike Gude 11-01-1996
ONE MIGHT THINK from the "Letters" section of the September-October issue that there was overwhelming opposition to Julie Polter's commentary on partial birth abortions.
Jim Rice, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 11-01-1996
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, has announced that the cancer he was treated for in June 1995 has returned.
Jim Rice, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 11-01-1996
Some are calling it "a pivotal moment." Others have labeled it "flawed and dangerous."
Jim Rice, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 11-01-1996
Seventy-five years after its creation, a statue of suffragists Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will at long last join the all-male statuary of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda...