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...further our understanding of the material or to question the positions we have taken. When we’re looking for “just the facts, ma’am,” we’re often disappointed when students in our core class have decided to document their own interpretations of Going After Cacciato, instead of just telling us what happens in the story so we can potentially use it as an example on the final. In these cases, we’re hardly using the resources of our peers. If the entire syllabus were on Sparknotes.com...
...glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental issues in their direction. In a confidential document distributed to G.O.P. Governors and members of Congress just before last November's elections, Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised party members to refer to themselves as "conservationists." The document said, "The first (and most important) step to neutralizing the [Republican environmental] problem and eventually bringing people around to your point...
...struggle with the meaning of evil and of De Kock. The black psychologist was so moved by the white man's pain that at one point she reached out and touched his shaking hand. The gesture startled them both. Around such moments, Gobodo-Madikizela has composed a beautiful moral document that is without a whisper of easy grace. --By Lance Morrow
...brought by ordinary Chechens against the Russian military under the European Convention on Human Rights, which Russia has signed. The com- plaints, dating from 1999 and 2000, center on allegations of torture, execution and the destruction of personal property, which are covered under the provisions of the Convention. That document also guarantees the right to "an effective remedy before a national authority, not- withstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity." Having failed to get justice from Moscow, the Chechen plaintiffs are seeking their remedy through Strasbourg. "It is impossible for complainants in Russia...
...Vatican announced late last year its plans to release a document on the advisability of admitting gays into the Catholic priesthood. At Harvard in December, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance’s anti-homophobia efforts reminded the community to scrutinize its own attitudes of acceptance of sexual minorities. Many American Catholics have chosen this past year, in which abuse revelations and anti-gay sentiment have injured Catholic communities around the country, to examine the Church’s teachings on sexuality and sin and to envision how these teachings may apply to a culture from which...