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...what if we later in life find that our actions seem foolish to more mature eyes? In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, "Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow thinks in hard words again, thought it contradict every thing you said today." After all, what time is there for youth and idealism, if it be not youth...
...column of May 4, 1998, Aamir Abdul Rehman correctly concludes that framing the Israeli-Palestinian struggle in nationalist terms will produce no results. Both the assumptions and goals of any two nationalist philosophies inherently contradict each other; hence any discussion of international relations must be framed in an internationally accepted framework, possibly a moral...
This in itself does not contradict the radiocarbon-dating results, but other aspects of Wilson's research do, most notably a chronology that appears to track the shroud back long before 1260. Wilson finds several European references to what appears to be the shroud in the early 1200s. But more important, he seems, through historical detective work, to have connected it to something called the Edessa Cloth. A historically well-documented object of reverence in Constantinople for 350 years, the cloth disappeared when the Crusaders plundered the city in 1204. Most Byzantine witnesses described it as being a mystically precise...
...decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court cases that have spread like kudzu across the legal landscape. The result is a thicket of rulings. Since 1991, juries have returned well over 500 verdicts on sexual harassment--decisions that often contradict one another and send mixed signals about how we should behave anytime we meet a co-worker we'd like to see after five...
...persist: Why did Linda Tripp describe her as ?joyous? after her Oval Office encounter? Why did Willey continue to write Clinton and his personal assistant, Nancy Hernreich, in what sources describe as a ?consistently friendly and admiring manner? after he had supposedly assaulted her? Why does her Jones testimony contradict another sworn deposition, in a lawsuit against her late husband -- in which Willey claims she told no one, the President included, of the financial trouble her family...