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...Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...country is uncomfortable with history. In fact, however, until recently, America has lived happily with the past--ours and the world's. How could we not? The Constitution itself continues to be a remarkably workable compilation of historical references that swing from the moderate Enlightenment stability of Swift, Hume and Locke to the wildest dreams of Blake, Wordsworth and Rousseau. The American solution to the stifling and compromising balances of the Enlightenment was the risky (and Romantic) extension of the Bill of Rights...
Finally, the people of Northern Ireland need to work to create a society of non-violence. John Hume, the recently retired leader of the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Trimble won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for their work for the peace agreement. Since he founded the SDLP in 1969, Hume has been consistently opposed to violence while supporting the nationalist ideals. By following his example of considering this a political struggle and not a war, the people of Northern Ireland can learn to live like Americans—at peace with fellow citizens...
...Fein members from government. However, such exclusionary motions need to be supported by both a majority of unionists and a majority of nationalists. It is unlikely that the moderate, pro-independence Social Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) would join with unionists to oust Sinn Fein, especially with party leader John Hume planning to retire in November. Therefore, the UUP is set to leave the coalition if the IRA does not relinquish its weapons...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...