Word: exceptionality
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Given that the insurgency is limited to one ethnic group, D’Souza concluded that “there is no way that the United States can lose this war except to lose it in the American mind...
...recent call by the co-directors of Harvard Students for Choice for “limits” on postering by Harvard Right to Life (HRL) only further confirms me in my belief that those who claim to support free expression, except when it is hurtful, quite simply do not get it. The price of living in an open society is that we are liable to find ourselves contradicted, offended, and distressed at every turn. We pay this price because we are aware of the alternative. However sincere the desire of the writers to protect the emotions of rape victims...
...very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...intentions in the world, sometimes just don't get it. They don't grasp the fact that for a black person existentially, ontologically, it's a different experience. Minette really isn't defining herself in terms of white people. She's not defining herself in terms almost of anything except for her strong Christianity and her family. And I think it's very confounding to many white people when black people say, I don't really care about you. I don't really care if you like...
Executive Order 13199 asserted that the OFBCI it created would “value the bedrock principles of pluralism, nondiscrimination, evenhandedness, and neutrality,” an essential safeguard against the sort of theocratic repression the government condemns in the Middle East. Except that didn’t work out, either: David Kuo cites one OFBCI grant analyst who admitted, “When I saw one of those non-Christian groups on the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero...