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...month. It's an engaging memoir-cum-travelogue about a 2002 trip to explore his roots in Ghana. To his shame and disgust, he found that one of his ancestors was a slave trader, a discovery that both shook his world and, paradoxically, freed him from it. "To be honest," he acknowledges quietly, "I haven't really come to terms with it. It's a very salient daily reminder of the fact that there's no such thing as black and white, that everything we do is a kind of mixing up. Everything we do is about contradictions, really." Those...
...clarity. Both have been attacked, and both have retaliated. Sharansky also complained of the moral equivalence that Amnesty's reports seem to confer on both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are atrocities...
...their chairman, Howard Dean, was that he still had a lot to learn. Practically every nationally known Democrat from House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards seemed to be distancing themselves from Dean and his incendiary comments--asserting that many Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives" and that the G.O.P. is "pretty much a white, Christian party." Says Representative Ellen Tauscher, a California Democrat: "You're not going to sell Coke by insulting Pepsi drinkers...
...jokes at Summers’ expense, to be honest, could be funnier. But it’s more significant that they’re being made at all. Prior to Summers’ dog days, swipes at the president had generally been as harmless as coy plays on his name. Now he has firmly established himself as prominent fodder for satire. Such is the innate difference between this year and last...
...Everyone agrees that working toward gender equity is vitally important,” Summers told The Crimson in that interview. He said that universities must address discrimination head-on, but that academics must also engage in “careful, honest, and rigorous research” to understand the factors fueling the underrepresentation of females. “My speculations were intended to contribute to that process,” he said...