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...black studies has come since its inception during the late 1960s. Back then, even die-hard proponents of the field concede, these programs were more a sop to the angry black students who had just begun to show up in large numbers on white campuses than a serious endeavor--the higher educational equivalent of building swimming pools in the inner city to take the heat out of long, hot summers. Poorly funded and often staffed by barely qualified teachers, they got little or no respect from other faculty members...
...toward that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness, toward the character of Rev. Gomes' proposal. But I break with Rev. Gomes in regard to operationalizing this goal in the form he proposes. Why this opposition? Because there must be a principle of reciprocity at the very foundation of any serious endeavor by any of us to institutionalize that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness. The millions of injured souls--of spiritually ravaged and smashed human beings--victimized by the white Americans who controlled and benefited from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make the first move on that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The death of Sgt. Donald Dugan in Bosnia on Saturday, the first American casualty in Operation Joint Endeavor, brought quick condemnations of the U.S. mission from some conservative Republicans, but failed to produce the "outrage" predicted by Rep. Gerald Solomon, chairman of the House Rules Committee. While Senator Phil Gramm, a presidential hopeful, vowed to bring the American troops home in his first act as President, Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole both declined to revisit the question of American presence in Bosnia. "We can't cut and run when the first tragic thing happens," said Dole...
That's not to say that getting injured is a good thing. Rehabilitating is a time-consuming, difficult endeavor...
That's because speculating about political fallout is an endeavor in which reporters can feign expertise, and they can do it with a veneer of impartiality that is harder to maintain when assessing the actual merits of a proposal. "The effect is as flattening and mind-shrinking as if the discussion of every new advance in medicine boiled down to speculation about whether its creator would win the Nobel Prize that year...