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...authority graphically demonstrated on a daily basis by the Israelis. Today it is not only the Islamists and leftists but Arafat's own followers, too, who are openly defying their leader, taking Palestinian fate into their own hands along with Kalashnikovs and belts of explosives. They pour scorn on Arafat's periodic cease-fire calls, asking what Palestinians will get in return except for a continuation of the occupation. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres has repeatedly warned that the Palestinians have no incentive to stop fighting if they are offered no political process for pursuing an end to the occupation...
Restlessness in the face of suffering has set Cornel West down many paths—some more useful than others—in a quest to see where he can do the most amount of good in the world. He deserves commendation, not scorn; feedback, not insult. Would that any of us be able to do a fraction of good that he has done in the world...
...National Book Award in 1997, a Pulitzer in 2001 - abruptly stalled this summer when it was revealed he was not only writing history, but rewriting it as well. It turned out Ellis had invented his tour of duty in Vietnam, with which he liked to regale students, earning their scorn and a 12-month suspension from Mount Holyoke College, where he had taught for 29 years...
...that student political groups are appreciated and that student service organizations are praised, whereas resentment still looms in some circles for athletic teams? Why is it that our talented classmates who are actors, singers, and artists are applauded, while some still scorn our basketball, hockey, and football players? Harvard College would not be the same without any of its unique members, athletes included...
...must be said that they were created with ambitious compassion. Canadian prime ministers have never intoned “Greed is good,” nor have they been so sanctimonious in their stewardship of national culture. Meanwhile the U.S. has bombed, sanctioned and bullied its way to worldwide scorn, and domestically has failed to attempt a social program of anywhere near the scope of Canada’s. When former President George Bush announced his goal of leading a “kinder, gentler nation,” his neighbors to the north wondered whether he was planning...