Word: correctible
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...expecting that some people will say this is just a politically correct view, that this is revisionist history...
...revisionism. if you actually read the Spanish chronicles and the first English settlers' accounts and the French accounts, I'm just saying what they saw. I'm returning back to what they saw. Politically correct implies a kind of left-wing imagining of the Americas as this kind of Edenic place, a wilderness in which all of these noble savages are treading lightly. It really wasn't like that at all. These were people who were skilled, successful land managers, who used the land heavily, had enormous populous societies and lived in some of the world's biggest cities...
...These subjects are controversial enough that I do expect, and have already received, some knee-jerk reactions: on the right, saying that this [is a way of saying] that the origins of this nation aren't Christian, or some kind of politically correct glorifying of savages; and on the left, saying that I am trashing them by saying they are violent, and not perfect stewards of nature. In fact, Indians were human beings, just like anybody else. Like anybody else, they did some absolutely amazing stuff, and some stuff that makes you roll your eyes...
...brawl in Detroit affect you? It was the worst. One, my little boy was there. Two, I just finished hip surgery, and I really felt helpless that I couldn?t do anything to correct the situation or alleviate it in any way. The most incredible thing was leaving the arena and watching the players? kids and how sad they were. How they reacted just blew me away. Even though it damaged our sport, hopefully we can all learn from it and move...
...finish his degree in civil engineering next spring. The town has been preparing as well. Since 2002, Newton has poured $130 million into parks, a 40,000-seat racetrack and small-business incentives. If Newton can bounce back, surely Maytag can too. To do so, it will have to correct its flat-footed mistakes. Here's what it will take...