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When some American Indian activists occupied a building at Fort Robinson and threatened to burn it down, Moran sentenced them to five days in the county jail. Some whites denounced him for being a "bit soft on our Indian brethren," But in Moran's view, "shorn of emotionalism, what happened is nothing more than a slightly aggravated case of trespass...
...Pinchas E. Lapide investigated the Pope's and Catholics' activities on behalf of the Jews, and in Three Popes and the Jews he estimates that Pius XII and countless priests, nuns and lay Catholics saved the lives of between 700,000 and 850,000 of their Jewish brethren from rampaging Nazis sometimes at the cost of their own lives...
...kills in a particularly cruel way: instead of the explosive-tipped harpoons used by most whalers, it employs the unarmed type. These do less damage to whale meat but only prolong the agony of the great mammals, often attracting other whales who, in trying to help their beleaguered brethren, are themselves caught. Last week, in a dramatic reversal, the hunter suddenly became the prey...
...thinking, astute political leader. Not to mention his astounding ability to create some of the finest music from a strictly instrumental standpoint. You can never understand Marley until you listen to his music. The music makes the insanity intelligible. It makes normally inscrutable human beings--Marley--and his Rastafarian brethren--seem like prophets in a sea of herecy...
Migration is Galbraith's most controversial solution to poverty. He brushes aside the possibility that those the least willing to tolerate poverty are probably the ones who through their energy and motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly...