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Authoritarian approaches do not lead to lasting political solutions. Israeli leaders must adopt a different attitude toward dissent or betray the democratic ideals on which their nation was founded. The U.S. can back Israel without backing intolerance and oppression. American influence in Israel is enormous. It should support more democracy, not less...
...first double-take, calling secular humanism a religion seems a contradiction in terms. Here the fundamentalists, of all people, have made "secular" and "religious" interchangeable ideas, rather than antonyms. By putting them on a par, the fundamentalists betray their real agenda: not just sheltering their religious beliefs, but building a shelter of intolerance against a whole range of other values and social practices...
...Mafia's tradition of omerta, the code of silence, is explicit: betray the family and pay with your life. But beginning with the televised confessions of Cosa Nostra Songbird Joseph Valachi in 1963, that code has been repeatedly violated. At the racketeering trial of reputed Mafia Boss John Gotti last week in Brooklyn federal court, omerta suffered one of its rudest shocks...
...into dishonesty. Kelly's perception is that the Black Sox did not cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people become willing to do something they consider wrong if they see enough others doing it. Kelly shrewdly narrows his focus to just the wrongdoers, not the colleagues who never joined...
...that struck me so forcefully when I and my host country were young continues with undiminished vigor and uncertainty. To see this tumultuous process anew fills me with hope, misgivings and the desire to make a few more remarks on the ways this great land may yet fulfill or betray its destiny. In what follows, I will have occasion to repeat some of my own words; for the past 1 1/2 centuries, scarcely anyone commenting on America at any length has failed to quote Tocqueville. I ask the same indulgence...