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...strength, passion, and independence, in favor of simply doing, whether that means creating art, resisting oppression, or proudly taking care of one’s family. For, just as a group of women in Bangor, Maine, vowed in the midst of the antislavery movement, women can “[claim] the right to define good behavior for themselves. The real sin...is failing...
...with Walesa in the evening. Residents crowded the route and many appeared anxious to welcome him back . One of those greeting him was Gdansk novelist Pawel Huelle, who praised the German writer for his intellectual contributions as well as for his frequent public statements that Germany had no claim on lands lost to Poland in the war. "For all his life Grass has been against erasing memory, erasing history and putting responsibility just on history and Adolf Hitler," Huelle wrote in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "His analysis of fascism and German crimes have always showed that it wasn...
HRYHORY NEMYRYA, foreign policy adviser to Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader in 2004's "orange revolution," whose allies claim they have enough votes in the Sept. 30 election to oust the Prime Minister and form a new, pro-Western government...
While coaches often claim that no player’s roster spot is guaranteed, the cuts still came as somewhat of a shock to many involved with the team, both because of the number of cuts that took place and the fact that they involved former varsity players...
...superior intelligences” cannot escape its artificiality. The inequality of intelligences can never be an objectively verifiable fact of human life; the metrics that establish intelligence are necessarily steeped in arbitrariness. Especially when referring to political knowledge, as “leaders” must, how can anyone claim superiority? How can one possibly understand the narratives, struggles, and hopes of the people “better” than they themselves? Indeed, much like the frenzied efforts colonial intellectuals devoted to constructing the criteria with which to judge “civilization?...