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...Washington to his tiny Fourth Street Drugstore in Clarksdale to give heart to the movement. Foot soldiers in the bloody civil rights wars crowded the store's narrow aisles in those days, desperation and what sometimes seemed like misplaced hope overcoming their justified fears. Now, in the soft afternoon shadow, the phone is silent, and there is only one visitor, come to ask how things have changed...
When Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their first N.B.A. championship last week in a lopsided 4-1 series against the Los Angeles Lakers, he removed the last shadow on a peerless career: the notion that great players who never win a title are somehow less great than those who do. In truth, brilliant individual players are not always brilliant team players, and that is why their teams do not always win championships. But in conquering the Lakers, Jordan did the very thing that is often hardest for a virtuoso talent: he used his genius to raise the talents...
...ended before it could create a new generation of martyrs. It is because their sons and daughters were spared that people will line the streets while the soldiers pass by, but that should not be mistaken for gloating, or amnesia, or indifference to the suffering that continues in the shadow...
...miracle. To others it was profoundly, if sometimes obscurely, troubling. It called up brutal images -- baby farming, cannibalizing for spare parts. Many saw in the story the near edge of a dangerous slippery slope at the bottom of which they glimpsed an abyss, and maybe the shadow of Dr. Mengele at work...
Western thought since the Renaissance has considered that the course of mankind was ascendant, up out of the shadow of evil and superstition and unreason. Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant creature of the Enlightenment, once wrote, "Barbarism has . . . been receding before the steady step of amelioration; and will in time, I trust, disappear from the earth...