Word: columbusã
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Director Chris Columbus??€™ latest child-centered opus brings the first installment of Scottish author J.K. Rowlings’ multiple part book series to vivid and fantastic life. The series tells the story of Harry Potter, a young wizard who spends the first 11 years of his life trapped under a cupboard by his muggle, or non-wizard, relatives before discovering that he is actually a wizard, and has been invited to study witchcraft at Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With his trusted pals Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, he discovers a new world...
Yardstick submits that Columbus was as brave as all the myths and rhyming couplets say he was. Columbus was a fanatical leader with a superior sense of Manifest Destiny, like Hemingway with more focus, like Kepler with a better-developed sense of history, like Rousseau with more diplomatic facility. Columbus??€™ lifetime achievements are monumental: He captured the faltering imagination of Western Europe. He gave to her people the only the thing that could resuscitate her failing fortunes: hope...
...sporadic discussion does not a moral consensus make. In fact, according to the eminent social historian Anthony Pagden, the debate was a question of political expedience and not moral conviction, like the Environmental Protection Agency versus Big Oil. And anyway, the Spanish monarchs and the Pope ruled in Columbus??€™ favor. Perhaps Columbus Day protesters wish that Columbus had the moral character of Martin Luther King Jr., the foresight of Alexis de Tocqueville and the face of Kevin Costner. But back then, nobody did. And Columbus went on four amazing voyages of danger and adventure that gave birth...
...like a pretty pathetic target for protest. Now that Sept. 11 is the official symbol of moral anachronism, Columbus Day can finally claim its rightful place in the constellation of holidays as a celebration of the adventure and accomplishment that spawned the deeply moral society we have today. For Columbus??€™ long weekend, the climate was finally right, not for protest, but for careful consideration...