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...made him Secretary of State. And Speaker of the House Henry Clay, a Kentuckian, helped him win the presidency when the election of 1824 was thrown to the House of Representatives. For most of his career, Adams believed the South would handle slavery on its own, wiping the great blot from national life. By his 60s, however, he had heard too many Southerners praising slavery as a good thing. When elected to Congress after losing the White House in 1828, Adams spent the remainder of his life flaying slavery, supporting the mutineers on the slave ship Amistad and the right...
...Legal and human rights experts, among other critics, have long contended that Guantanamo-where some 380 suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives are being held without trial, in many cases since 2002-represents a shameful blot on America's moral and legal principles. Close U.S. allies, including Britain, Germany and others, have also called for the camp's immediate closure...
...famous lines are here: "Go tell the Spartans"; "Come and get us"; and the Spartan soldier's deflection of the Persian threat, "Our arrows will blot out the sun" - he says, "Then we will fight in the shade." Herodotus: damned fine screenwriter...
...Herodotus cites the Persian despot in the midst of the battle, a line that appears also in the highly stylized screen version: “I have so many archers that their arrows will blot...
...next semester’s meetings, it is unlikely that professors will be required to be evaluated any time soon. Although this fact affects only a small number of courses—60 professors opted out of the CUE Guide last spring—the exemption remains a large blot on any claim that Harvard is trying to improve students’ academic experiences...