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...absolutely hit the nail on the head. I almost cried. I am not an educated man. I have a high school education. I have always taken comfort in knowing that the person in charge of the country--and in many ways the world--is smarter than I am. I don't honestly believe, though I have tried to, that this has been the case for the past eight years. It seems that George W. Bush never really got it. It was all just a photo op: "Hey, look where I am, Dad!" It is a shame that so many people...
Richard Corliss states in his review of the movie Defiance, "Not all Jews under Hitler's boot were passive victims" [Dec. 8]. Almost all of Hitler's Jewish victims were civilians with families. They had no army, let alone guns, and were often betrayed by their local government. The vast majority had no chance to fight and nothing to fight with and probably thought they would live to see their families again, not knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims"--even to refute such a notion-- is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have...
...member of parliament, says Jaruzelski's actions allowed moderates on both sides to prevail, eventually leading to the Round Table talks that brought a peaceful end to Poland's communist regime in 1989. Even Lech Walesa, the legendary Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was interned for almost a year in the clampdown, has said that Jaruzelski would have been considered a "great patriot" had he lived in different times and that the trial was a "mistake...
...spite of the petition, the administration cited other barriers in addition to the costs associated with rescheduling exams: exam periods are planned two years in advance and more than 2,000 undergraduates are set to take exams on Jan. 20 for almost 40 different classes...
After consulting widely with colleagues, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith chose Lamont almost a year after government professor Lisa L. Martin left the post to move to the University of Wisconsin—accusing Smith of a lack of attention to diversity...