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- 1441: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
- ... Simon Bernardin, and the late Joseph Bernardin. Cardinal Bernardin attended Catholic and public schools and the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He was later accepted as a candidate for the priesthood by Most Rev. John J. Russell, then Bishop of Charleston. He studied at the following Colleges: St.Mary's, St. Mary, Kentucky, St.Mary Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. He also attended the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. where he received the Master of Arts degree in Education in 1952. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop John J. Russell on April 26,1952, in St. Joseph Church, Columbia. His administrative skills were immediately recognized. During his 14 years in the Diocese of Charleston, he served under four bishops in many capacities, including ... and administrator of the diocese. On March 9,1966, Pope Paul VI appointed Msgr. Bernardin Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta. In doing this he became the youngest Bishop in the county. On July 10,1982, Pope John Paul II reappointed Archbishop Bernardin to Archbishop of Chicago. His installation took at Holy Name Cathedral on August 25,1982. Later Archbishop Bernardin went to the College of Cardinals. On February 2,1983 he ...
- 1442: The New Initiatives of George W. Bush
- ... A primary component of the Bush directive is his repeatedly passionate call for his party to involve a larger spectrum of voters, a message that should allure to the Independent and Democratic voters that Senator John McCain (Arizona) has been enticing. On that account, we notice a more compassionate conservative platform from George W. Bush. His views on education and taxes can be summarized as “mushy moderation” as Steve Forbes has ... government.” (A Tax Cut With A Purpose, 6) Bush’s tax plan accentuated the validity that low tax rates are effectual economic tools used to advocate a higher standard of living for all Americans. Senator John McCain and George W. Bush do not conflict greatly in terms of their education principles. However, unlike Bush, McCain explicitly supports vouchers - funded by cutting federal subsidies for oil, ethanol, and sugar. (Bush and McCain ... embrace a wider array of voters has not always been politically practical in South Carolina, where it could mean alienating the white conservative voters Bush needs even more to win the primary next Saturday against John McCain.
- 1443: Immanuel Kant
- ... our innate reason. This is an example of autonomous will. Along with duty is the difference between the Categorical Imperative and the Hypothetical Imperative. An example of this is two grocers in a town are John and Joe. John wants to keep his trade, so he insists on selling the best goods, giving the best service, being friendly and polite, and offering value for money. Joe does the same, not to keep his trade, but because it is what he should do. According to Kant, even though the actions are the same, John is acting immorally, according to the Hypothetical Imperative, while Joe is acting morally, according to the Categorical Imperative. For Kant, the act is not important. As long as you are acting from duty and ...
- 1444: Prescribed Burning
- ... Sierras rise gradually eastward from the state's Central Valley - first as nut-brown grassy foothills, then as chaparral and manzanita brushlands in wild canyons, then as sprawling mixed-conifer forestlands of true nobility. Then John Muir's 500-mile-long "range of light" attains pinnacle and peak status on the "back row" of the grandstand, leaves forests and their fuels behind, then plummets to the Nevada desert below. The southern ... Mt. Lassen, fire officers can demonstrate that previous prescribed fire can slow or stop major forest fires, open habitat areas for grazing and forage, and in some cases help protect homes from approaching wildfire. But John Maupin, fire-management officer on the Plumas, emphasizes that one prescribed burn seldom does the trick, citing historical three- to 15-year cycles of natural fuel-reduction burns through much of the West. "Tomorrow if ... specific useful purposes. Our "prescriptions" for various kinds of blazes have been as varied as the characters who kindled them: Back in 1879, on what is today's Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, naturalist John Muir set a monstrous forest fire "thirty or forty feet high" to dry his clothes on a rainy night. "It was wonderful - the illuminated rain and clouds...the trees glowing against the jet background" ...
- 1445: Anti-Affirmative Action
- ... with so many times, the one with such a lack of motivational ability, confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances towards a preferred school. "Affirmative action", I soon found out, was used by President John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin. As a policy setting out to resolve the problems of discrimination, Affirmative Action is simply nothing ...
- 1446: The Bill of Rights
- ... representatives. But a 1976 Michigan law prohibits a corporation from using its general treasury funds to make independent expenditures in a political campaign. In March, the Supreme Court upheld that law. According to dissenting Justice Kennedy, it is now a felony in Michigan for the Sierra Club, the American Civil Liberties Union, or the Chamber of Commerce to advise the public how a candidate voted on issues of urgent concern to ... of the items life, liberty, and property. Incidents including such violations are described elsewhere in this article. Here are two more: On March 26, 1987, in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, Jeffrey Miles was killed by police officer John Rucker, who was looking for a suspected drug dealer. Rucker had been sent to the wrong house; Miles was not wanted by police. He received no due process. In Detroit, $4,834 was seized from ...
- 1447: Communism: Overview
- ... these unreasonable sums for the fear of a giant communist sphere. The countries drew up agreements on boundries, of which the USSR also violated. This hate towards the United States climaxed during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The Soviets shadowed the government of Cuba in 1959,creating a communist country under the dictatorship of Fidel Castro. Under this time period the Bay of Pigs took place. This was an ambushed attempt of ...
- 1448: Term Limits For Legislators
- ... as a truly representative arm of government that includes women, minorities, and white men in equally powerful positions. "Whose government is it anyway? With term limits, it's [the people's]." (23) Endnotes 1 Fund, John H. "Term Limitations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come" Policy Analysis No. 141 October 30, 1996 2 Editorial "Senate Tackles Term Limits" The Boston Herald April 23, 1996 3 Levine, Herbert M. Point-Counterpoint: Reading ... York. 1991 Ferry, Jonathan "Women, Minorities and Term Limits: America's Path to a Representative Congress" U.S. Term Limits Foundation Outlook Series July, 1994 Vol.3 No.2 www.termlimits.org/index.shtml Fund, John H "Term Limitation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come" Policy Analysis No. 141 October 30, 1990 www.cato.org/pubs/pas/policyanalysis.html "Term Limits Excellent New Strategy" The Florida Times Union October 1, 1996 www.termlimits.org/index.shtml Jacob, Paul "Choosing Term Limits" The Washington Times August 7, 1996 www.termlimits.org Jacob, Paul "Whose Government is it Anyway?" www.termlimits.org/index.shtml Kolbe, John "Term Limits Sledgehammer" Phoenix Gazette June 7, 1996 www.termlimits.org Levine, Herbert M. Point-Counterpoint: Readings in American Government St. Martin's Press, New York. 1995 Nelson, Lars-Erik "A Very Special Class ...
- 1449: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... her, and took her dead husband's title. The papacy at this time was struggling to hold its land against encroaching nobles from the north and Byzantine Greeks and Saracens from the south. When Pope John XII appealed to Otto for aid against Berengar, Otto invaded Italy a second time, defeated Berengar, and was crowned emperor by the pope in 962. By a treaty called the Ottonian Privilege, Otto guaranteed the ... Civil war then raged until the Wittelsbach candidate for the throne, Louis the Bavarian, defeated his Habsburg rival at the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322. Louis IV obtained a secular coronation in Italy, but Pope John XXII, objecting to his interference in Italian politics, declared his title invalid and excommunicated him. Louis then called for a church council and installed an antipope in Rome. At Rhense in 1338 the electors made ... glass, and paper industries of Bohemia. He adorned Prague, his capital, with new buildings in the late Gothic style, founded a noted university, and kept a brilliant court. Charles's son, Sigismund, forced the antipope John XXIII to call the Council of Constance (1414-1418), which ended the Great Schism in the papacy. But as the king of Bohemia he was chiefly concerned with his own dynastic lands. Bohemia was ...
- 1450: The United States As A World Power: How Much Longer Will The US Be The Policeman of the World ?
- ... any portion of this hemisphere' would be considered ‘dangerous to our peace and safety' and any attempt to control independent American governments an unfriendly act toward the United States."1 With these and other statements, John Quincy Adams drew up the Monroe Doctrine, and Congress voted and passed it. The Monroe Doctrine was stressed during the time of Roosevelt's Presidency. During this era many foreign policies were given up, such ... from Bosnia to welfare reform Copyright 1996, WebPage from Electric Library URL=http://www.elibrary.com/ 5/5/96 6) Ibid., WebPage from Electric Library URL=http://www.elibrary.com/ 5/5/96 7) Omicinski, John, Clinton to UN: America not the World's Policeman Copyright 1994, WebPage from Electric Library URL=http://www.elibrary.com/ 5/5/96 8) Voorhis, Jerry L., Intervention in Bosnia:Opinions Copyright 1995, WebPage from ... Cutting Defense Budget by $5.7 million Gannett News Service, WebPage, URL=http://www.elibrary.com/, Copyright 1995 3) Rubenstein, Ed; World Cop ? Economist Newspaper, WebPage, URL= http://www.elibrary.com/, Copyright 1992 4) Omicinski, John; Clinton to U.N.:America not the world's policeman Gannett News Service, WebPage, URL=http://www.elibrary.com/, Copyright 1994 5) Brewer, Norm; State of the Union:Clinton on everything from Bosnia to ...
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