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...certainly all these things pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person...
That was a poor comparison you made between Castro and the Pope. History proves that faith remains while ideology fades and dies. MOSES ANOH EKRA Montreal...
Putting "their faiths to the test" might be an appropriate comparison in the religious realm but hardly in the secular vs. the religious. Castro and Marxism have failed miserably, a demonstrable fact. I am a believer in an omniscient and loving God, as is John Paul II, but I can't prove I'm right. Nor can the Pope--that's faith. And as you pointed out, "the Catholic Church will survive the death of the 264th Pope," while few believe the Cuban revolution will outlive Castro. ROBERT F. MORAN Methuen, Mass...
...nights ago the Harvard men's basketball team lost to the 11th-ranked Princeton Tigers. The Crimson played with desire, drive and want. Yet, these inner motivating forces paled in comparison to the skill, talent and size of its opponent...
Maybe this is our last, best hope: that the Washington game of catch-them-with-their-pants-down is so wretchedly dark and low that the high road by comparison comes to seem a bright and shining path. Or that scandal has become so common that it's passe to kids...