Word: notionally
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...truth is that disadvantaged minorities have to work harder than others to achieve the same level of success. While this fact offends our notion of fairness, it is a truth that should not be covered over by the rubric of "diversity" or psychologized to the point of paralysis. The ideology of victimhood proves fatal to its victims if it is not quickly converted into a concept of self discipline and personal virtue. If anything, we need to cultivate a larger sphere in which individual responsibility and merit are unconditionally demanded and respected...
...Jamar and other agents scoff at the notion that either scholars or family members could have succeeded in getting anyone out. "We could have spent seven months allowing this all to happen." As for the Bible experts, "they could have argued religion with him for hours and it wouldn't have done any good. You going to talk someone out of being the Messiah? It's a lot to give...
...agents who watched the hideous finale from ground zero adamantly dismiss the notion that they somehow started the inferno. "I saw three fires almost simultaneously," insists Sage. "There's no question but that it was not started by the tanks in front of building. That's ridiculous. I saw the tanks at different points from where the fires were." He, like others, had no choice but to stand and watch. "I can't tell you what was going through my heart," he says. "A combination of anguish, reflection and absolute anger for David Koresh. Because the bottom line here...
...thesis is that the first migration took place not 11,500 years ago but 20,000 or 30,000 or even 50,000 years ago. Although the evidence is still sketchy, archaeological digs in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada have yielded tantalizing clues that this radical notion might be correct. "This is a hot area of research," says Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. "Man's origin in the New World is one of the major unanswered questions of archaeology...
...Appleyard and his neoconservative friends moan about the demise of moral and cultural authority and bash liberal democracy because it fails to choose. But the failure to choose is itself a choice. What it chooses is that people are, or can be, grownups. That too is a value, the notion that we all individually or collectively may be the salvation of one another. Cosmic ignorance does not diminish us, it ennobles...