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Slavery Virginia's house of delegates this month passed a resolution, led by delegate DONALD MCEACHIN, expressing "profound regret" for slavery--the closest a state has come to apologizing...
...quite capture. Academia is inherently ill-equipped to deal with the realities of conflict, since it is based on the premise that disputes can be resolved through rational exchange of ideas. Yet violence, whether it happens to squirrels or Harvard undergraduates, is a strange animal. It is sudden, profound, and oblivious to logic and theory...
...Palestinian and Jew, memory is a profound influence, a medium of hope, but something else as well. Each has felt the passionate ache of nostalgia for the same land. In the circumstances, memory is sometimes a fanatic and a poison. Observant Jews believe God gave Abraham title to the land of Israel sometime in the Bronze Age. The Book of Genesis declares, ''The Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.'' The more secular deed, in modern times, was the Balfour...
...Iraq and corruption. And worse, it can be argued that the failure in Iraq and the moral sloppiness that overtook the late, great Republican Congress were direct consequences of a 25-year political pendulum swing to the right, which has resulted in a vaulting arrogance overseas and a profound disrespect for good governance at home...
...Iraq and corruption. And worse, it can be argued that the failure in Iraq and the moral sloppiness that overtook the late, great Republican Congress were direct consequences of a 25-year political pendulum swing to the right, which has resulted in a vaulting arrogance overseas and a profound disrespect for good governance at home...