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Time after time we are told, fanatically, that we are up against the worst threat ever. That the War on Terror is the greatest threat we have ever faced. And the saddest thing is a lot of people believe it. A pagan's thoughts at Eastertide There was a small epiphany in church last week when we sang the recessional "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded," a German chorale in which we basses must jump around more limberly than we may be used to. A tough part compared to "When the Roll Is Called up Yonder" and I stood in the rear and struggled with it and then as the choir recessed down the main aisle and came up and stood in the side aisles, three basses wound up standing near me, like border collies alongside the lost sheep, and I got myself in their draft and we sang our way to the barn. (Moral: get with the group -- just make sure it's the right one.) Letters to the Editor Nevada clinics and regulation In the mid-1970s, U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada was using his post as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee to keep airline deregulation bottled up. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and economists, meanwhile, were beating the drum for what they called "regulatory reform." |
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