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Furthermore, Washington should lean on its allies to do the same. But the federal government is only a part of the story. States and municipalities who have passed their own sanctions against South Africa should annul these as well. And government officials and activists alike should encourage American businesses which divested in the 1980s to go back to South Africa and set up shop again...
...soldier, but there were some who urged him to become a military despot, if not an absolute monarch. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rode into the White House with two bullets in his body and a white scar across his face. When South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory at Vicksburg and Appomattox; and Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, mustache...
Americans almost unconsciously regard the victory as a kind of moral cleansing: the right thing. But reality and horror have not been rescinded. All killing is unclean. It has upon it a stain that technology cannot annul or override. Americans are not omnipotent, not all virtuous, they should remind themselves, they do not bestride the world. Vainglory is one of the sillier postures: it invariably precedes the rude awakening. It is the sort of whooping glee that, in Daffy Duck cartoons, goeth before the fall...
Although the last student, Greg Williams, originally received the most severe level of disciplinary probation, he has since been granted the freedom to play varsity football, which serves to virtually annul the essential impact of the Ad Board's decision. The obvious question is what exactly is the meaning of disciplinary probation "vice severe" after this recent development...
LAST MONTH, COLLEGE presidents meeting in New Orleans at the annul NCAA conference pushed through a host of reforms geared at cleaning up" college athletics. Although the progress is apparent, these reforms are hardly a cause for celebration, as they are only a few modest steps along a long path that must be followed if an appropriate balance between academics and athletics is to be struck...