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...role in a combatant's battle plan, and even though the fighting lasted only 42 days, it may turn out to be the most ecologically destructive conflict in the history of warfare. Experts are still sorting out the effects on the air, land and sea, some of which may persist for generations to come...
...influence they brought with them to forge a just peace and an equitable enfranchisement of all Southern citizens (including women, Ms. Kerrigan), they ensured that the bitterness which festered throughout the occupation would erupt once they and the federal troops left. Over 125 years later, that bitterness seems to persist, rearing its ugly head not only in the South, but in places all over the country--like Los Angeles, for instance...
...most stunning, overwhelming victory in war is a beginning as well as an end. Diplomatic problems will persist long after the burned-out hulks of Iraqi tanks and the bodies strewn across the cratered battlefield are buried by sand. Political dangers will explode after the last of thousands of mines are dug up. Psychological reverberations will be felt when the final echoes of cheers for the victors have died away...
...late 1960s, even European allies had denounced U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The negative consequences for America's reputation in the Third World still persist today...
Contributing to these efforts to dominate are old cultural patters that persist despite changes in the law. Among the most pernicious of these are beliefs about the acceptability of force in sexual intimacy. Renee Landers '77, Professor of Law at Boston College, reported in the Radcliffe Quarterly about a recent study of 1700 sixth- through ninth-grade students in Rhode Island. Despite our laws to the contrary and despite the general improvement in understanding about women's rights in society, 65 percent of the boys and 57 percent of the girls responded affirmatively to the question of whether...