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...marital disaster became apparent to him, Charles asked friends how he could have got it so wrong. The question now is, What can he do to get it right? His supporters believe he will redeem himself through good works. Trouble is that the unlucky Prince gives his all for admirable causes that don't seem to matter much to either his subjects or the media: inner-city projects, helping ethnic minorities, assisting new small businesses. On a recent foray to York to pursue some of his public-spirited interests, no national press accompanied...
...other major event of the weekend, the Food Festival, will be held in the Science Center from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. There, students can purchase one-dollar food tickets which they may redeem at tables serving different ethnic foods...
...Americans who controlled and benefitted from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make the first move on that complicated road toward Christian forgiveness.... Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
...Gomes thinks that the first move toward forgiveness is blacks' moral burden. This is terribly wrong. Wrong because it fails to understand the reciprocity imperative. Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
...largest and riskiest foreign venture in this part of the world. But he feels bound by a promise, made during his first month in office, to back a peace agreement with U.S. soldiers. The subsequent years of seemingly incessant Balkan warfare made it unlikely Clinton would ever have to redeem that pledge, but remarkable diplomatic progress in recent months--much of it stemming from the efforts of Clinton's envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke--has forced the President to confront his commitment. Last week the indefatigable Holbrooke was flitting between the Balkan capitals in an effort...