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...said. “We are scholars, we are not believers.”But VF and HEF were concerned that Hindu children might feel inferior about their religion after reading the texts. HEF Media Coordinator Khanderao Kand wrote in an e-mail that what’s forgotten is the “‘Hindu child’ who will feel embarrassed when he is abused by his fellow classmates for following an inferior tradition.”Yet, Anu Mandavilli, a spokeswoman for Friends of South Asia, a San Francisco-based peace organization, said teaching issues...
...humiliating witnesses and making them look silly and confused. And though my closet is mostly skeleton-free, I was worried about what sort of dirt his people in Belgrade had been able to dig up on me. I tried to relax, but after a while felt I had forgotten everything I ever knew about Vukovar, and feared I would end up answering his questions with tips on anti-cellulite treatments and applying makeup to dry skin...
Some high school trophies occupy a special place in the heart, a warm space cordoned off for sentimentality and success. Other prizes, an army of identical plastic men posing victoriously atop them, are predictably forgotten just days after their acquisition.Then there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan” (Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school...
...wanting to continue to serve it, also decided that he’d been battered enough: that is fair. Whitman’s heartbreaking American dirge, from which this jeremiad draws its title, will long remind one of this loss—but I’ve not forgotten the Battle Hymn of the Republic, either...
...Mandelbaum's theories, Elliott evokes the prominent role of the U.S. during the past few decades in the peacemaking processes around the world. Elliott deplores the loneliness of the U.S. in its quest for a steadier Kosovo or Bosnia, denouncing the lack of Europe's commitment. Elliott may have forgotten that in both places, Kosovo and Bosnia, American and European soldiers fought side by side and that air strikes were also delivered by European aircraft. Romain Champenois Versailles, France...