Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would not invite Yasser Arafat to anything, anywhere, anytime, any place. I don't forget," the Mayor said. Forget what? That some Palestinian henchperson, of which Yasser wasn't even one, killed the American Jew Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Lauro a decade ago? Or that other Palestinians, even if they were sent by the organization over which he had full control, murdered the entire Israeli Olympic team at Munich...
...delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah, but to my knowledge he has never been back," says Marshall. "Why doesn't he come back and help make things better...
...bracket is a simple thing, really. It happens when a person arrives at a conclusion in matters moral that does not suit his own purposes. In response to his prejudices or wants, he begins to bracket, or forget issues he once deemed of paramount ethical concern. That is not all. The bracket is not complete until the person announces that his actions are motivated only by the highest of principles...
...exclude women from the march elicited any indignance whatsoever. Bracketing is what happens when a great big sacred cow--in this case, race--comes up against a mere sacred calf--lets say, sexuality. The Left gets so completely caught up in the worship of the former that they forget about the latter...
...acknowledging that he has left us with a bitter aftertaste. We must respond to the Arafat of today, while reflecting on the Arafat of yesterday. To dwell on the latter in spite of the former undermines the very peace effort we are working so hard to preserve. However, to forget the Arafat of yesterday for the sake of the Arafat of today releases him from a past to which he is justifiably bound...