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...from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation that dedicated a system of inferiority to them in all areas of life from residential segregation to educational separation and political disenfranchisement. The result was the continuation...
Gates said he expects the novel to have an influence on the academic world equal to that of other narratives...
...When last they talked in January 2001, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators crafted a far-reaching solution. A Palestinian state would encompass all of Gaza and up to 96% of the West Bank. To make up for territory annexed to keep many settlements, Israel would swap an equal percentage of land inhabited by Arabs inside Israel. Arafat accepts the idea but rejects anything less than a solid, contiguous border. Sharon's grudging acceptance of an "eventual" Palestine never goes far beyond civil autonomy for Palestinian islets in a sea patrolled by Israeli forces...
...people substantively if women are entitled to equal rights, people will say yes,” Rosenfeld says. “If you use the f-word, young women especially feel it’s associated with being anti-male and that’s the hardest thing to overcome...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft pursues his own job with equal zeal. Terrorists must be vanquished and lawyers who abet them punished...