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...final hour. The interest in Jefferson's racial views, long the subject of scrutiny, has reached a crescendo in our time. As Americans attempt to build a more egalitarian, multiracial future, we crave a better understanding of what the man credited with most eloquently expressing the American creed felt about race. What did Jefferson think about black people? How does his relationship with Sally Hemings complete our picture of him? How should we, in a more racially enlightened era, interpret what we know about his thoughts and actions...
...spend more dollars on the ideas they came up with than has ever before been devoted to any philanthropic effort. From the start, they agreed that their money was not to be allocated based on the recognition or applause they might receive, nor on the race, color or creed of the recipients. Rather, cash would be channeled so as to address the vital needs--indeed, in many cases, the very survival--of people around the world. With breathtaking speed, they turned these thoughts into reality by focusing on global health and learning issues. In 1999 their foundation made...
...Sadr's fierce young lieutenants apply a puritanical Islamic creed when and where they can. They insist women go veiled, they bar Western music and dress, they censor films and close--or burn down--liquor stores. In Najaf they have set up an office for the "Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Al-Sadr has authorized his followers to set up illegal courts and prisons in Baghdad and eight southern cities, where al-Sadr enemies have allegedly been tortured...
What began as an epic bout between Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed in the first two periods soon turned into Apollo vs. Drago in the third, and the Crimson was not playing the role of the Russian...
...meaning to grief. Abu Shanab, the political leader assassinated last August, told me a few weeks before his death that suicide attacks are an expression of human dignity in a situation that seems hopeless. "We show Israel we refuse to accept their occupation lying down," he said. In the creed of Hamas, suicide bombs are the most potent weapon Palestinians can wield against a better-armed enemy. The killings make Israel understand, Rantisi told me last summer, that "force will not defeat the Palestinians. Ever." Palestinians know "we're not winning the war," says Raji Sourani, a human-rights lawyer...