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...must confess that for a long time I was neither engaged nor even interested in this debate. The activists appeared to me as self-indulgent genealogists, seeking academic credit for a strictly personal interest. Then about a year ago one of my roommates took a course on corridos, or Mexican folk ballads, offered by a visiting professor in the English department. The fascination with which he read his texts for the course, and the enthusiasm with which he described his work struck me deeply. I learned quite a bit in the process as well--the social value and poetic richness...
...movement. But they didn't, and they weren't. The past is deplorable, but it is also irreparable. Are we to go on hating one another forever? The real tragedy would be if blacks took as long to forgive the sins of the past as whites have taken to confess to them. MARK WARNOCK Fort Worth, Texas...
...prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that they will forgive fellow Christians who confess their sins, even if that admission seems too little and too late...
Well, on the Internet, all these things are true. If you're smart and witty, you'll win fans. And shy people can relax a little. The network makes it easier to confess a crush or admit a grudge. The Internet offers a respite from the social ineptness of Harvard life. and it can lend people a modicum of self-confidence and self-esteem that's not easy to find around here...
...cult, offered an explanation: "The best-educated members were really prized by Asahara and did not go through the same indoctrination that the others did. Once someone as honest and serious as Tsuchiya was out from under Asahara's control, it was easy to get him to confess...