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Today, in a world in which democracy and the free market have come to take widespread hold, indignant would-be activists lash out at apathetics, who have always been and always will be apathetic, instead of picking up a bullhorn and a picket. In times of desperate turbulence like the '30s and '60s, the apathetics were never the enemy because there were more pernicious adversaries; the enemy was and always should be those fighting on the other side, and not those simply doing nothing...
...article presented just one facet of the abundant case the Board has amassed in its audit of Campbell's administration. Throughout the semester, he proved unreliable, inefficient and apathetic to the Board's various ventures and travails. When confronted about his consistent absenteeism, he would often lash out unexpectedly with offensive language and personal attacks on other Board members. The Board had little choice but to give him repeated second chances, as we were in the process of restructuring and could not afford such an upheaval...
...certainly all these things pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person...
Helms does require constant coddling. After a mild Washington Post piece last week quoted Democrats criticizing Senate Republicans for not confirming appointees more quickly, Helms took to the floor to tongue-lash the Administration. Republicans might wonder if such a man should hold all of them hostage to his whims and grudges. And if by some miracle Weld's use of force works, perhaps Albright will see that playing footsie with an ideological extortionist is a losing game--and rather than wink at Helms, take...
...Jennifer Lash wrote six books and bore six children. Her last novel, Blood Ties, written while she was dying of cancer, was rejected by her usual publishers and a string of others, and she died without selling it. But her children, the eldest of whom is actor RALPH FIENNES, weren't about to let it rest at that. While making The English Patient, Fiennes mentioned the book to Patient author Michael Ondaatje, who suggested the actor pitch it to his publisher, who loved it and bought it. Not content with that, half the Fiennes family (sister Sophie and brother Joseph...