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...that lines are set. But I would like to do everything I can to ensure Iraq's integrity and to see that Iraq's future in terms of the rights of its people is given a chance. I think they should resolve their own problems internally within the context of a dialogue. But I don't believe the situation in Iraq is going along these lines; in fact, it is the opposite...
...there is no peace, things cannot remain the way they are. You can't tackle some of the really serious problems we face except in a context of peace -- things that affect people, such as water, the economy, progress, people settling down. You can't tackle extremism. This madness will bring about eventual disaster...
...sophisticated Frenchness to much of the world were the film stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret -- the former a native Italian from a town near Florence, the latter born in Germany to an Austrian-Polish-Jew ish father. As Cyrano himself might have crowed, in a slightly different context, Vive la difference...
...description of the Glorious Fourth that points out the racial, sexual and social characteristics of the Founding Fathers, never mind taking a swipe or two at Jefferson. But most of today's schoolchildren would not be surprised. It is now fairly commonplace to learn American history in the context of who has oppressed, excluded or otherwise mistreated whom. All across the country, students are imbibing a version of the past and present that their parents would not recognize...
...their dissents from the report's conclusions within the report itself. Said Jackson: "I would argue that it is politically and intellectually unwise for us to attack the traditions, customs and values which attracted immigrants to these shores in the first place." Also appended, somewhat jarringly in the prescribed context of racial and ethnic harmony, is a lengthy statement by Ali A. Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the State University of New York, Binghamton, arguing that the word holocaust should not be reserved exclusively for the Jewish experience under the Nazis. American Indians and African Americans...