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...Professor Cornel West's apology for his participation in the Million Man March somewhat short of convincing. To me, reading the op-ed piece in the New York Times was out-right painful. Here was a stunning exemplar of that genre of moral acrobatics that I shall call the "bracket...
...bracket is a simple thing, really. It happens when a person arrives at a conclusion in matters moral that does not suit his own purposes. In response to his prejudices or wants, he begins to bracket, or forget issues he once deemed of paramount ethical concern. That is not all. The bracket is not complete until the person announces that his actions are motivated only by the highest of principles...
Here comes the bracket. But the issue at hand loomed larger than Minister Farrakhan. But Dr. King himself entered into dialogue with the radical Black separatists of his day. But--and here I am reading between the lines--Professor West needed to assert that despite his Harvard chair, he is a common man, a common Black man, just one in a million...
...rebelliousness has created a breeding ground for violence, especially in the austere rural settlements that bracket the Continental Divide. Pipe bombs have been found in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. An unknown assailant fired shots at a Forest Service biologist in California. Federal agents recently arrested a man after he tried to buy explosives that he allegedly planned to use in blowing up an irs office in Austin, Texas. And in Carson City, Nevada, last August, a bomb destroyed the family van of a forest ranger while it was parked in his driveway. The explosion was the second this...
Majmudar's return was not exactly a Monica Seles style comeback--she lost her first match to Minnesota's Jennifer Hayes, 6-4, 0-6, 7-5. However, she did manage two wins in the consolation bracket of the first singles flight...