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Many parts of the world are currently experiencing heady, heartening times. As commentator Charles Krauthammer has written, we are currently experiencing "the greatest global democratic awakening in history." Of course, it would be naive and even callous to proclaim that democracy, freedom, and peace are on the march everywhere. Just ask Blacks in South Africa, the editors of La Prensa in Nicaragua, British author Salman Rushdie, forced into hiding by Iranian fundamentalists, Palestinians fighting for independence, or the many other peoples who remain oppressed by their governments or still seek independence from neo-colonial rule. And the price of rebelling...
...many ways, this novel is more a chronicle of the family than of Jeremy's childhood. But all the characters are flat and do nothing for the work's landscape. Jeremy's mother is unbelievably callous. She is a well-known, talented journalist who carries her notebook with her everywhere and sees a feature article in every crisis in her son's life...
Moseby's doctor was also callous when he first diagosed the disease, Moseby said. "The doctor said, 'You've got AIDS. If you stay with us, we'll stick with you to the very end.' I was pissed. I was shocked," Moseby said...
...judgement, if not its true dedication to tolerance and education. In trying to raise our consciousness, it wounded and alienated a large group of Mather students, the friends of the visiting 17-year-old harassee. The tone of the debate at the ensuing Mather House meeting revealed a callous, mean-spirited side of what should be a caring, empathetic desire for tolerance and understanding in campus life. Their thoughtless handling of the situation has created a hurt and embittered group of otherwise sympathetic Mather students who will never in the future be able to take Defeat Homophobia seriously again...
...recent Kadrmas case represents a shameful retreat from the position laid out in Brown. In the words of 82-year old Justice William Brennan, who wrote a dissent in the Kadrmas case, the ruling shows "a callous indifference to the realities of the life of the poor," who demographically represent our country's future...