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...patriarch. When Javert (Richard Kinsey) damns Valjean for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family, the audience experiences Valjean's sense of injustice at his 19-year labor sentence, and lives his hope upon his parole. When Valjean protests his martyrdom while Javert blindly upholds his self-righteous resolution for law and order, we know that this will be an epic struggle...
...Personally, I could never get over the shock," he says now, even though he still feels the fight against "subversives'' was for a righteous cause. His first death flight so disturbed Scilingo that he went to a navy chaplain: "He told me that it was a Christian death because they did not suffer, that it was necessary to eliminate them." The Roman Catholic Church, long criticized for tolerating the military, responded last week with a veiled mea culpa chastising priests who may have condoned the "dirty war." But human-rights activists still called upon the church to acknowledge openly...
What is clear, however, is that more than a few lone crazies have answered the call to arms. Boldly, and calmly, some people are advocating murder as well as arson and bombing to drive abortion providers out of business. "More violence is inevitable, and it is righteous," says C. Roy McMillan, a Mississippi activist whose obstetrician wife once performed abortions. "It wouldn't bother me if every abortionist in the country today fell dead from a bullet...
...institution as self-righteous and insular as Harvard requires someone to keep it reasonable and honest. On our fair campus, that individual is Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53. Once again, Professor Mansfield has hit the nail right on the head. At a faculty meeting last week, he pointed out that Harvard's sexual harassment guidelines are unfair to men and violate academic freedom...
First of all, the fact that post-modernism posits a claim and argues for it is a violation of its most fundamental tenet (who is to say that one argument is superior to another?). But even the post-modernists are prepared to drop their non-confrontational, self-righteous facade--albeit at the price of contradicting the very core of their philosophy--in the name of the cause...