A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.