Tuesday, December 4, 2018

In the news, Friday, November 23, 2018


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from The Atlantic  Magazine

The Electoral College Conundrum
There’s no consensus on abolishing the Electoral College, which has countered the popular vote in two of the past five presidential elections.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Trump Urges Congress to Fund Wall After Migrants Demonstrate
A border group screamed at him and demanded entry — president insisted 'it is finally time for action' on a 'major' security package. President Donald Trump demanded on Friday that Congress pass a “major border security package” to fund the border wall because “it is finally time for action” as thousands of migrants with the Central American caravan continue pushing toward the U.S. The first groups of migrants reached the Mexico-U.S. border city of Tijuana last week. More than 4,000 of them are camped there currently.

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from Miami Herald

Here’s what we’ve never quite understood about “us” and “them:” Race does not define it. Neither does religion, sexuality, geography, gender, education or money. No, the only “us” worth talking about is the “us” of people striving for the courage to see community in difference, their own humanity staring out from the eyes of the Other. And the only “them” worth striving against is the “them” of people who lack that courage, who find it easier and safer to live within division.

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from Pray Tell
Arts & Humanities & News & Media Website

Over the next four weeks as we prepare for and celebrate the season of Advent, I would like to offer translations and versifications of four sequences appearing in the Sarum rite marking the four Sundays of the season. My interest in sequences has grown as I have been exploring how the established texts of particular liturgies were embellished and enriched by later texts arising from meditative reflection on the established texts.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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