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...brought here in a tragic and violent nature. The emotional and political legacy of slavery and segregation sets aside the black experience from the white and non-white immigrant experience. And women, who obviously are members of all ethnic racial groups, suffer from prejudice that is due more to incorrect perceptions of biological differences than xenophobia...
...math exacts a human toll long after conflict ends. Still, the notion that the U.S. should forswear the use of mines is unpopular among many at the Pentagon. "There's no easy way to defend a perimeter without land mines," an Army officer says. "But it's just politically incorrect to support the use of land mines right now." The ability to block an enemy's retreat by quickly dropping mines from the air is another advantage that some officials are loath to relinquish. "Mine opponents say it's a matter of morality and not military utility," says the officer...
When Deutch fired two senior officers in connection with the Guatemala scandal last year, the ranks grumbled that such punishment for old operations now deemed politically incorrect would chill risk taking in the future. (Indeed, many senior officers buy $1 million insurance policies in case the agency abandons them to lawsuits.) The agency "still needs James Bonds," says a House Intelligence Committee member, Congressman Bill Richardson. "[It needs] spies who do the dirty work that needs to be done." The CIA's deputy director for clandestine operations, David Cohen, insists in an exclusive interview with TIME that his spies...
...what people want. Tears. But I will not do that. Emotion is unnatural. There is something untruthful about it." When she and her son Josh received the news of Jessica's death, Hathaway said, "Josh started to cry." Then she rephrased the sentence, as if the verb were somehow incorrect. "No, I would rather say he was in tears. He said he didn't want to fly anymore. I begged him to re-choose based on what he wanted instead of reacting to someone else's choice...
...anyone else at Sinn Fein's refusal to condemn Irish Republican Army atrocities [WORLD, March 11], and at clumsy attempts by radio and TV commentators to get it to do so. However, there is much more to the matter than merely seeking to establish that there are politically incorrect attitudes among Sinn Fein spokespeople. There is also the effect on the mind-sets of those who organize or execute such atrocities. Every time Sinn Fein officials fail to condemn I.R.A. violence, they are implicitly asserting the right not of only the I.R.A. but also other groups to carry out such...