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...opinion, believing with John Stuart Mill that opposition to your view keeps you awake and does you a favor. But liberalism also believes in progress through liberation from prejudice such as found, allegedly, in sexism. From this aspect liberalism sees no reason to answer challenges from reactionaries and to refight battles already won. In the spirit of progress feminism feels justified in dismissing its critics—which is another reason for refusing to argue with them...
Thank you for the wonderful story and pictures of The Phantom Menace. As a young mother, I eagerly waited along with my small son for the first Star Wars to come to our local theater. And then we had to take family and friends, going back to refight the battles. We saw it seven times. With the latest film, I will return to that special time with another little blue-eyed boy (my grandson this time) and fight new battles. THERESA CONNER Columbia Falls, Mont...
...refight those debates today to a heartbreaking background track of casualty reports, we have one advantage over our forerunners of the Vietnam era: direct access to an open and global communications network. I am happy, and lucky, to have made a journalism career on the Internet; building a news operation on the Web carried fond echoes for me of the years I spent at 14 Plympton Street. In all those late-night basement shifts, pasting up flats in the shop and developing plates for the press, The Crimson had taught me at least one thing: the best way to insure...
TIME: Does it seem as though Bradley is looking to refight some of the battles that were fought in your party in the early 1990s...
Teamsters Union president Ron Carey won a huge battle for organized labor last week when he arm wrestled UPS into settling a strike. But he will have to refight the bitter war for the presidency of his union. A court overseer has found that Carey's campaign consultants tainted his election win over James P. Hoffa Jr. last year. Election overseer Barbara Zack Quindel, who establishes fact on behalf of the court, found that $221,000 in improper contributions to the Teamsters for a Corruption Free Union had been funneled to Carey's campaign. "The members cannot have confidence...