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...proposed Russian constitution will play a significant role in this choice, but it will not be crucial. Constitutions do not make or break nations--leaders do. Even the universally-lauded United States constitution would have been in trouble had George Washington decided to aggressively assert presidential power; instead he set a stable course by showing restraint. The French Fifth Republic further demonstrates the malleability of constitutions; every French president since Charles De Gaulle has molded the constitution in a particular direction...
...question is how Mansfield could dare to presume to cast judgment upon an entire group of people--a group of people who have nothing more in common than their desire to love one another. You discuss narcissism in your essay. I can think of nothing more narcissistic than to assert that one's own identity is by definition better than that of another's. I can think of nothing more shameful...
...decrepit continent. In "The Ghosts of August," a family travels to an Italian castle owned by a Caribbean writer. The writer has remodeled certain parts of the castle, and thus metaphorically left his mark on Europe, but there are deeper and more ancient powers in the castle that assert themselves in the swift and brutal denouement. In "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque...
...haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking peace pansies"), and his logic can be unforgivably specious (against the pro-choice argument for abortion:"Can a woman choose to steal, using her own body?"). But in fact his views on abortion are relatively nuanced. Nor is it kooky or even wrong to assert, as Limbaugh has, that the risk of heterosexual AIDS and estimates of the homeless population have been exaggerated for political reasons, that increased school expenditures don't necessarily produce better education, that means testing for Social Security would be a fine idea, that taking responsibility for one's own life...
...that unequivocally supports or deplores homosexual love would bruise the our personal integrity by telling us that we had better come to the right moral conclusions about homosexuality, fast. By taking an official stance on the issue, Harvard could say that homosexual life is completely unproblematic, or it could assert that homosexual life is hopelessly compromised. Both statements are unconvincing and patronizing. It is like saying either that abortion is completely acceptable or that abortion is in all cases unacceptable. Either way, one denies moral complexity and rejects ambivalence as an option...