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Probably no other country would take quite so seriously land claims that propose, in effect, the impossible rolling back of history. The inherent absurdity of such a proposition might be clearer, say, in a suggestion that Australia be handed back to the aborigines. Even the angry blacks of South Africa are not openly challenging the right of possession held by descendants of the whites who invaded that land long ago. Surely one of the oldest realities of the earth is that the dispersal of all population has been by conquest, dispossession and conquest again. And if history could be unwritten...
...grinding slowly. The sound track-it was the original one-was practically inaudible. Nor were there Chinese subtitles, a lack that did not daunt Chiang Ch'ing, who knew the screenplay perfectly from beginning to end. In fact, her running Chinese narration murmured into my ear was far clearer than the English dialogue...
After having read the Crimson articles concerning the Expository Writing controversy, I feel it necessary to make three points clearer...
Drawing often on Greek literature to make his points, Finely said that his years of studying the Greek classics had given him a clearer perspective on life than he "could have gotten in Ashtabula, Ohio, for instance...
...make the picture a little clearer, Fish's mortality was confirmed over the last two weeks as his squash team lost for the first time at Princeton and his tennis squad dropped several matches in a national tournament in Wisconsin...