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...eyebrows. The Baptist minister left his wife in 1999. Within a year he had married a younger former staff member. The issue will probably not be decisive--Bill Clinton's Arkansas is not unfamiliar with political peccadilloes--but it is not helping Hutchinson, even as he sounds the familiar refrain that voters should judge him on the totality of his career...
...times, “unilateralist” has become a dirty word, an insult on par with “belligerent aggressor” and a refrain of choice for critics of the present administration. We hear, from European politicians and American intellectuals, a ceaseless jeremiad about the dangers of unilateral U.S. action. Consider, for example, the lament of Peter Kilfoyle, a member of the British parliament, in his recent op-ed in The Crimson. After deciding that Islamic terrorism is the result of globalization and the polarization of the “haves?...
...eyebrows. The Baptist minister left his wife in 1999. Within a year he had married a younger former staff member. The issue will probably not be decisive - Bill Clinton's Arkansas is not unfamiliar with political peccadilloes - but it is not helping Hutchinson, even as he sounds the familiar refrain that voters should judge him on the totality of his career...
...ahead. This week prosecutors begin the second part of their case against Milosevic - for his responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Croatia. In this phase of the trial, he is expected to dwell heavily on how Serbs are victims, not perpetrators, of the Balkan wars, a popular refrain at home. "Milosevic was politically dead before he was transferred to the Hague," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, a leading Belgrade editor. "The tribunal has given him the kiss of life." That is quite an achievement. It was Serbs, after all, who dumped the ex-apparatchik from power two years...
Broadly conceived, this program must be one of education and humility. In high schools and in homes, students, parents and teachers need to study history, talk through current events and refrain from broad theory. More and more, we have to watch our language and resist easy generalizations whenever they may occur. Dismissive of intellectual modesty, academia and government still suffer these pitfalls, speaking expansively, rather than narrowly and concretely. As individual Americans, we have the opportunity—if not the obligation—to foster a new paradigm whereby scholars and policymakers take after a public that respects...