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...along we’ve had a quiet confidence in ourselves,” Mazzoleni said. “For a long time we’ve been in this mindset of single-elimination because if we lost we were done. I think it’s helped us focus on the game and the task at hand...
This is perhaps not the most natural strategy for a film that painstakingly documents the mindset that drove formerly-peaceful activists to adopt a philosophy of violence as the Vietnam War spiraled out of control. The students who made up the Weathermen, later the Weather Underground, chose to express their objections to what they saw as an unjust, needlessly-murderous war with a series of domestic bombings throughout the 1970s on targets including the U.S. Capitol and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...
...Case for Separation” (Staff Ed, March 2) objects to “state funds paying for a dogmatic and colored religious education,” and fears that the free use of government-funded vouchers would produce “de facto state sponsorship of one religious mindset.” Does the staff also wish to prevent welfare recipients from donating to religious charities? Surely the flow of taxpayer dollars into the collection plate constitutes “de facto state sponsorship”—yet such sponsorship is hardly terrifying when it comes...
Speaking about the disputed attacks that precipitated the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, he said, “We had in our minds a mindset that that would happen—and we were wrong...
...training of ministers. What their arguments fail to take into account is the systematically biased approach religious colleges take to teaching theology. States should only support the study of theology when it acknowledges religious choice and pluralism, or else they risk de facto state sponsorship of one religious mindset...