Word: lording
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...course we might decide to outlaw sexist or racist speech. But then, to be fair, we would also have to outlaw saying the Lord's name in vain. If a fundamentalist Christian can maintain civility in the presence of infidels in her classroom, why can't we show the same forebearance toward those we consider racist and sexist? There is no good reason why the state--and by extension the university--should treat bigots, evangelical fundamentalists, and politically-correct proselytizers any differently...
Within a week of the trip to Moscow, the President's Russia policy had collapsed. Russia's slide is not, mind you, a failure of Clinton's personal diplomacy. There are limits to personal diplomacy. (Something politicians often have difficulty recognizing: "Lord," said Senator William Borah after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, "if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.") Personal diplomacy cannot reverse the trajectory of a great power. Russia's retreat is an aftershock of the December elections in which the totalitarian parties campaigning against reform and for empire won about...
...American soldier is no redder than that of a Somalian peasant. If one soldier dies for every hundred Serbs forced to put down their weapons, the United States will have achieved a remarkable success while putting to shame the isolationist European powers personified by Great Britain's ineffective Lord Owen...
...assumption in American policy that reformers will finally win in Russia," says Henryk Szlajfer of the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. "All that is nonsense." Says Jaromir Novotny, chief of foreign relations at the Czech Defense Ministry: "Yeltsin is not a democrat. He is a Russian feudal lord." Angry about NATO intransigence over the membership issue, Polish President Lech Walesa has accused the West of "indecision and selfishness...
...many supporters of school prayer, the issue is values, not constitutionality. Last week, on a cool, cloudy morning outside Wingfield High School, a group of students gathered privately, as they do every morning shortly before school starts, to hold hands around the flagpole and intone the Lord's Prayer. Among them was junior Stacie Dennis, for whom prayer is an answer, not a problem. "We need it 'cause of all this violence and stuff," she said. "You didn't see all this violence in school when they were praying at school." A classmate, Jamie Meadows, agreed: "It won't hurt...