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Aside from the captains' early floggings of disobedient underlings, this was the party's only violent act. More remarkable, perhaps, is how much violence the explorers avoided, despite their varied ethnic and racial backgrounds and the ceaseless frustrations of the trip. It's an inspiring thought--the melting pot on the march--but like most simple images of the famous journey, it doesn't tell the full story, or even half of it. For every uplifting aspect of the tale, there's a difficult, melancholy sidelight, which may well be the secret of its abiding power...
...environmentalist to hear the author of This Land Is Your Land sounding like a booster from Houston with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of anachronism--imposing the current sense of racial and environmental decorum upon earlier times. Consider Thomas Jefferson's descent from Enlightenment philosopher and naturalist to slave master and debaucher of Sally Hemings--a fair enough revisionist correction, if kept in disciplined perspective. Of course, one age's evil is another's routine. Meriwether Lewis, as specimen-collecting naturalist, blasted away...
...first black professor to receive full tenure at Harvard blasted Harvard Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy in writing last week, blaming the professor’s recent book for inciting occurrences of racial tension at Harvard Law School (HLS) this past spring...
Among Kilson’s claims about Kennedy was the assertion that his colleague did not do anything to calm racial tension at HLS this spring...
Kilson wrote that “Randall Kennedy, it appears, has no sense of responsibility for the vicious racial fires he has cynically ignited,” justifying his claim by noting that none of “a variety of news reports” indicated that Kennedy “surfaced to assist the officials of the Law School in managing the crisis and calming the waters...