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...this campus, commitment to the pantheon of liberal causes may be the best means of expurgating the accumulated bourgeois guilt of a life led in suburbia and private high school...
...evasion fetched $770. "I know it's a little twisted," said executive Andy Gross, the winning bidder. "But this little conversation piece will have cult value. I could display it next to the Gerald Ford letter pardoning Richard Nixon, which I own, in my new Hall of Guilt...
Lost in the rush to shed collective guilt, however, is the distinction between the majority of the homeless, who require only temporary shelter, and the chronic street people -- the 15% or so of the unhoused population who are the most unstable, the most sick and often the most visible. Also obscured is the inevitable fact that herding the homeless out of one neighborhood only forces them to take shelter elsewhere. Some communities, acknowledging that reality, are seeking a proper balance of compassion and practicality...
Studies of trial outcomes show that in cases in which evidence of guilt or innocence appears to be clear, the ethnic and racial makeup of juries % "doesn't seem to matter," says University of Iowa law professor Michael Saks. Many immigrants come from cultures in which anyone charged with a crime is presumed guilty, and they tend to apply this standard even to defendants of their own background. On the other hand, many are also deeply suspicious of authority because of their experience with prejudice or police harassment. Whatever the case, the presence of jurors who share the background...
...that mainstream white Americans aged 35 and over clean out their personal psychic attics of nearly everything they were taught -- and still fervently believe -- about what made their country great. Like the black and women's movements before them, the new movements rely heavily on the unwelcome rhetoric of guilt...