Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recollection of Samuel Gogol's story, for example, is preceded by this observation: "Fifty years later, birds still do not sing in Auschwitz. Was it just my impression? No, other people noticed the same thing: there are no birds in Auschwitz." And while it would be churlish to fault her expression of her grief for her grandfather, it is just those most powerful and universal emotions that are hardest to bring to life on the page; no 19-year-old author could do more than gesture towards them...
...parents, is an unfortunate way to live. To assume you will not change nor grow interested in new ideas leads to a strict adherence to a prematurely arranged code. Not only do such students leave the undecided at a disadvantage, but they prevent the system from proving itself at fault...
This sorry situation is, to be sure, mostly the fault of whites who pay lip service to equal rights but cut and run as soon as enough blacks move into their neighborhood. But many privileged African Americans are no more committed to public school integration than their white counterparts if it means sending their children to class with poor black kids. The main obstacle to integration is not race but class...
...Presidents, it seems, is on a permanent upward ratchet. This is a good thing, by and large, but rough on the incumbent. And part of the answer lies with Clinton himself. Not that his moral failings are worse than other politicians'. But his relative youth (which is not his fault) and his occasional callowness (which is) deprive him of gravitas...
While the HRRA supported PBHA's move toward autonomy, the HRC found fault with PBHA's position...