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...really, one might be tempted to ask, who could blame Bush or Kerry for what amounts to relatively benign neglect? It is, after all, election year, and there are far bigger fish to fry. Yet it is precisely this mentality that reveals one of the most troubling contradictions nestled within our culture: the demand for and expectation of excellence, coupled paradoxically with indifference when excellence is attained...
...March 1953 issue of The Atlantic, Dodds wrote, “The general objection of educators is that the emphasis of ROTC is so exclusively on practical details of the ‘know how’ to the neglect of the complimentary ‘know...
...Iran’s civil society against their theocratic rulers and inspire people from North Korea to Libya to dream of self-governance, we have to stand behind countries like India. In our quest for the hearts and minds of peoples across the world, ending our policy of malign neglect toward India would make an “in-Delhi-able” impression...
...undoubtedly disregarding several other dispossessed—to make a sizeable deposit of untouched food. You see, the ungrateful man—who was, perhaps, mentally unstable—had confirmed my conservative friend’s deep-seated beliefs: These unseemly vagrants, who we so casually neglect, are down-and-out due to their attitude, and their own volition; their lack of motivation, their laziness, keeps them from realizing the American dream that has served as the liberator of so many others. Of course, this is naïve, though all-too-common, thinking...
...labored to eat then, and I labor to eat now." Sant Raj, Indian farmhand, saying government neglect of the rural poor drove him to vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party, which lost India's general election to Sonia Gandhi's Congress Party...