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Charles Krauthammer's 'The Moral Equivalent of. . ." [ESSAY, July 9] is timely, vital and on target. It shows that part of our modern dilemma is that we have lost the ability to distinguish what is morally right...
...threatening to dominate the news. "Jackson's silence stuns the heart and diminishes his noble cause," wrote Timothy Hagan, co-chairman of Mondale's campaign in Ohio, in the Washington Post. "Jackson may have lost his moral compass ... A campaign for the presidency that apparently cannot distinguish between good and evil cannot command the respect it seeks." Wrote Columnist Jimmy Breslin: "All Jackson has to do is to condemn Farrakhan and walk away from him. And that will be the last time anybody will bother to report on what Farrakhan has to say. Yet Jackson says nothing." Breslin...
...furor raises a larger question: To what extent does the government's West Bank settlement policy create the conditions for Israeli violence? Shamir has gone to great lengths to distinguish between the terrorists, who he has suggested were "crazies," and the vast majority of the settlers. He is understandably defensive. Although a modest program was initiated after Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war, it was Likud's Begin who launched a major settlement plan after taking office in 1977. His aim was to create "facts on the ground" that would guarantee that Judea and Samaria...
Perhaps the most widespread objections to IMF practices are political. Critics charge that the fund does not distinguish between democrats and dictators, and that it disregards the consequences of its policies. Uganda, for example, is in the midst of a brutal civil war. By some estimates, more people have died and more atrocities have been committed in three years under President Milton Obote than in eight years under Idi Amin. Yet between 1981 and 1983, the IMF advanced $373 million to the government of Uganda, praising the "considerable progress" it had made toward rehabilitating a shattered economy...
...deadline was met, although the book Joyce saw was not exactly the one he thought he had written. Instantly recognized as a classic, Ulysses went through subsequent editions that corrected some mistakes while adding others. A nagging question arose and persisted: How to distinguish the novel's intentional complexities from accidental garbles...