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...refrain is getting familiar: All defense, no offense...
...Japanese internment survivors, and for the victims of recent anti-Asian hate crimes, the usual explanations for racial violence and discrimination ring hollow. The standard refrain--that racial scapegoating happens when our economy goes sour--seems like just another glib justification for pain and injustice...
...argument has revolved around whether or not our moral obligation to safeguard the rights of the Palestinians is greater than our diplomatic obligation to refrain from using our money to manipulate Israel's internal politics. George Bush has decided the former is more important. This is a dangerously wrong approach...
...candidates can be forgiven, then, for breaking the taboo on the mention of class. But now that they've gone this far, why not take the rest of the marbles out of their mouths and refrain from using middle class as a muffled code meaning not poor? After all, the middle class has achieved celebrity status on account of its relative poverty, so those who live in absolute poverty should be at least as deserving of a politician's fleeting attention. A mortgage may be a crippling burden, but it beats having no home...
...report said school health counselors should urge students to refrain from or reduce sexual activity and to warn them of possible emotional damage...