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Because it will be resource oriented, to assume that ethnic isolation would occur is akin to saying that the Lyman Common Room at Radcliffe College isolates men from women, or that Phillips Brooks House isolates liberals or that the Institute of Politics isolates government concentrators...
...much of the $68 million in Nazi gold the Allies have left was taken from Jews rather than from national treasuries? Whatever money is eventually deemed to belong to the Jews will never be more than a tiny fraction of what was taken so viciously from them. Something akin to the truth may well be all that is left to solace them...
...whole cluster of weighty issues are constantly juggled and judged. The definition of life, separation of church and state, private versus public rights, and moral and legal battles are all considered. The complexity and multiplicity of issues under discussion only adds to the difficulty of reaching consensus anything akin to a "solution...
Scientologists and their supporters say this is as bad as the Nazi regime. Church members, they claim, cannot obtain employment by the government, and their children have been kicked out of schools. Such "religious intolerance," said the Hollywood letter, is akin to Nazi policy that "first marginalized, then excluded, then vilified and ultimately subjected [the Jews] to unspeakable horrors." Those provocative charges put the U.S. in an awkward position: Scientology is a legally recognized church in the U.S., and its members are entitled to practice their faith freely. Burns, required to stand up for the principle of religious freedom...
...expositional dialogue. At times, I thought the entire movie was held together not by the Force, but rather by the utter ineptitude and poor marksmanship of the Storm Troopers. However, the plot of "Star Wars" is in fact what separates it from its imitators. Lucas creates an entire universe akin to Tolkien's Middle-Earth or even William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. But unlike these two creators, Lucas builds his universe with broad strokes, providing a comprehensive visual and narrative world even though we do not know such specifics as the nature of the Rebels' true cause, the story behind...