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...know that in 1963 someone decided it would "be more prudent to nip his aspirations in the bud," too. But I don't think so. What I do think is that Frank's column is the ugliest violation of what is supposed to be the bedrock rule of membership in an academic community: a commitment to civil discourse. And I also think that there is no moral difference between those who `simply' call for someone's murder and those who do the actual killing: the former's hands are as bloodstained as the latter...
...gone, where homicide is the leading cause of death among young men, and where parents bury their children every day -- how could such a people turn its back completely on an organization that it perceives as a fierce adversary of white racism, an organization that, by standing for such bedrock virtues as self-discipline, economic self-reliance, sobriety, the sanctity of family, could keep even one of its children alive...
While each affiliate chooses its issues according to regional importance, they all convey a bedrock belief in tolerance, often attacking their subjects with in-your-face frankness. A recent MTV Europe news segment focused on Russian homophobia. Another network might have opted for tactfully restrained graphics, two men holding hands, perhaps, but the MTV piece started with a passionate on-the-mouth male kiss...
...Public education is at the very bedrock of our free enterprise system. I believe in it and I will fight for it," Riley said in the address, sponsored by the Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education...
...natural Alpine spring water boasts that it is nothing less than "nature's perfect beverage." The drink, reads the label, "begins as the pure snow and rain that falls on 12,000-ft. Olancha peak in the towering Sierra. This pristine water is naturally filtered through the mountain's bedrock...