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...height of the de Man controversy, Wiener wrote a similar piece in The Nation which argued that there was a relationship between the ahistorical nature of deconstructionism and de Man's Nazi sympathies...
...seem pessimistic about our society. Is America going the same road as Rome at its height...
Gurdal used substitutions more sparsely than in the first two games, and staked the match on the Crimson's height advantage...
Though issues of identity perennially form the base of minority agendas, renewed attention upon it may signal the new assertiveness of ethnic groups 25 years after the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The question, frequently a subtle one for outsiders, signifies in many ways the rise of a new understanding of racism and racial insensitivity. However, different groups seek different answers for themselves...
...broached the notion more than a century ago. Philosopher William James alluded to it in his famous 1910 essay, "The Moral Equivalent of War." Franklin Roosevelt in 1943 spoke of a postwar America where young adults would make a "year's contribution of service to the Government." At the height of the Viet Nam buildup, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara proposed compulsory national service as a remedy for the inequities of the military draft. Now, amid the first stirrings of a rebirth of altruism, the idea has been revived by congressional Democrats eager to inspire what Georgia Senator Sam Nunn calls...