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...only does Kilson's interpretation of the statistics do harm to every black student--those doing well and those doing poorly--but it misrepresents the character of Harvard's black student community. Black students are not anti-intellectual, anti-achievement, or in need of remedial attention. Indeed, their individual fights to "escape" to Harvard stand as proof of their desire to achieve...
...minimal use in protecting civilians and their property. In Vietnam, both sides consistently committed violations: the North Vietnamese did not dress their guerillas in distinguishing uniforms--to do so would have been a contradiction in terms; the Americans created anti-personnel weapons which caused extensive and unnecessary harm to civilians and soldiers--their rationale was that such weapons were necessary to combat "people...
...case to the contrary. Jack Flowers, an overage American drifter beached in Singapore, tells the tale: the ribald apologia of a do-gooder who makes vice the arena of his somewhat special virtue. By pandering to other people's passions, Jack figures, he has saved "many fellers from harm and many girls from brutes." As for the act itself. Jack is old-fashioned enough to assume that everyone can agree on its proper dimensions...
Wiesenthal is severely, and justly, critical of the monarchs, whose greed and overweening zeal did so much economic and spiritual harm both to the Jews and to Spain itself, crowning the Inquisition's persecution of Jews with the expulsion from the country of most of its best commercial minds. The final irony, of course, is that these two remorseless rulers, who financed Columbus' later expeditions with plundered Jewish wealth, unwittingly opened a New World where, in the centuries that followed, persecuted Jews would indeed find the haven they had sought so long...
...unhappiness that awaited her. She did not question her fate; hers was a filial devotion which went beyond her concern for herself. After 15 years of such undeserved suffering, Kieu could reasonably have become embittered. On the contrary, she was no longer her somber self. Although past harm had left its mark on her, Kieu did not resist a tranquil life when, at last, it came within her reach...