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...first the community was too stunned to react, clamming up protectively as the TV vans rolled into town. "It was as if we could hide this horror from the outside world as well as from ourselves," says Molly MacDonald, then editor of Algona's weekly newspaper, and Marilyn's lifelong friend...
Members of the Harvard community should constantly remind Kerrigan and McCormack that their Confederate flag stands for much more than Southern pride. They should tell Townsend that there are better ways to react to a Confederate flag than to offend members of a fellow minority group. The Black Students Association and Hillel did just that, issuing a joint statement condemning the symbols and deftly avoiding an unnecessary Black-Jewish confrontation over the issue...
...AGREE with Grunwald's assertion that this is more than an issue of offending sensibilities. This is an issue of right and wrong. Symbols have meaning for what they represent, not just for how people react to them...
...example, inhibited and uninhibited children react differently when confronted with plastic keys, a cotton swab dipped in alcohol or a tape of a woman's voice saying nonsense syllables, Kagan said...
...talk with Saddam took place in the Presidential Palace on Oct. 5. Deeply engrossed in the written message from President Gorbachev, Saddam did not react directly to the fairly strong phrases in it about the need to get immediately out of Kuwait and to restore the sovereignty of that state. But the atmosphere at the beginning of the talk was tense...