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...were sent to concentration camps during World War II. And why Germany not only apologized to the Jews for the Nazi Holocaust but sent more than $60 billion in restitution. Mr. President, if slavery was as big a historical crime as you suggest--and it undoubtedly was--those precedents ought to apply. But you've made it clear that you oppose reparations. If you're serious about being sorry, you should rethink that stance...
...markets, Clinton and his European allies had given China plenty of latitude, and it would be naive for Hong Kong to count too heavily on muscular intervention on its behalf. But if Beijing wants to be welcomed into the community of nations with the stature its size and wealth ought to command, China will have to convince the gatekeepers that it is ready and able to live by the world's new rules...
...minutes in order to create a 35-minute, daily taas tutorial. "We realized we can identify the individual needs of all learners and do a better job--that's what I like about TAAS," he says. Still, Wade laments the denial of graduation to hardworking students and believes "there ought to be another way" to earn some sort of diploma...
...victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly at one point, "when one ought to speak more seriously." Has an artist ever spoken a sadder epitaph...
AMARILLO: Oprah Winfrey ought to know that the state that used to hang rustlers and horse thieves is no place to to be reckless with insults. When she turned vegetarian on the air last year during a piece about mad cow disease, cattle prices plummeted. Along with 12 other ranchers, cattle feeder Paul Engler (who lost $6.7 million as a result) is now suing Winfrey under a 1995 Texas law that protects agricultural products from slander. Her fateful words? "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" No point in horsing around. Winfrey may be able to settle...