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...Nebula, a knot of interstellar gas and dust in the constellation Serpens--come beaming in from space. "When I saw it, I was just blown away," says NASA's Ed Weiler, the Hubble's chief scientist. The image has such visual impact, in fact, that some researchers tend to overlook its scientific importance...
Many people are stuck because they dwell on the bad parts of history. Knowing your history is wonderful and productive, as long as you know all of it, and not just some parts of it. The ethnic groups should overlook the history of the United States, because their history is almost entirely bad and negative. Instead they should remember their ancestral history from their native lands. The one thing the Europeans colonists robbed from the black community and other ethnic groups was their history, and hence their identity and sense of pride. Black people and other minorities need to reclaim...
...race relations and the dearth of first-rate leadership on either side of the racial divide that have been appallingly evident in the wake of the O.J. Simpson trial. Black people are so hungry for a renewal of the struggle for racial justice that they are willing to overlook the bigotry and venality of the two poseurs who have summoned them to Washington this week. Even Jesse Jackson, who only a few months ago expressed ambivalence about the march, has now become so attached to the minister's cause that some believe he is trying to take it over. Jackson...
...issue is a complicated one. Is it possible to separate the individual from his or her actions? Can we appreciate and applaud the Million-Man March despite the stained record of its organizer? Farrakhan has not made it easy for us to overlook his biases. Quite the contrary--the march itself reeks of Farrakhan's chauvinist attitudes. I have nothing against the all-male nature of the march. I believe there is a real need for a day in which black men can affirm their unique spirit. However, Farrakhan, in what I am certain he considered to be a token...
...black man in spite of a prosecution case that was proved, in the very least, friable. How many jury trials of the old South came to mind? As O.J. became blacker for whites, he became blacker for blacks too, but the reception was quite different. They were willing to overlook the wife beater for the return of the native...