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Participants talked about the benefits and liabilities of instating a national identification card system. Among the issues they addressed were civil liberties and privacy concerns, ways in …

Participants talked about legal issues raised by governmental responses to terrorist attacks on the U.S., privacy rights, the powers of law enforcement officials, and Constitutional issues. …

Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) spoke about the existence of a values crisis in the United States. He outlined various responses by individuals to this, including his and others' efforts to cau…

Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) talked about the importance of character building through personal experiences. He emphasized that discipline and taking responsibility are the most important evi…

Professor Michael Sandel from Harvard University spoke about the importance of economic conditions on civic virtue. He argued that U.S. thinkers had long agreed that civic consequences were …

Senator Paul Simon, D-Illinois, spoke about the need to make television more educational and what both citizens and Congress can do to achieve this goal.

Senator Kassebaum spoke about the importance of community-oriented actions to deal with a variety of social issues. She stressed that people need to continue to link themselves to their loca…

At a two-day White House Conference on Character Building, Mr. Amitai Etzioni, Communitarian Network Chairman, talked about the broadening of the communitarian movement to create a democrati…

In a two-day White House Conference on Character Building, Mr. Bennett talked about how society can teach character and morality through communities and schools. He also talked about his pub…

At a two-day White House Conference on Character Building, President Clinton addressed communitarian leaders on the importance of their three concepts: opportunity, responsibility and commun…

At a two-day White House Conference on Character Building, Secretary Riley talked about how public education can build character without infringing on the students' constitutional rights. Af…