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...start instead with Martin Luther King, who saw where boycotting segregated buses might lead, or with Gandhi, whose example taught King the tactics of civil disobedience? Or rather were the civil rights laws of the 1960s passed because of a general and amorphous sense of national shame to which Parks and King served merely as goads? U.S. civil rights legislation mattered very much to Americans; will it have mattered to the rest of the world? Will America have mattered to the rest of the world after a hundred more 60-year periods have vanished, and will we stand in regard...
...Truth and Shame...
...issue of violent crime, the wealthy once again commit crimes that put the average street murderer to shame. Last June, for example, the Wall Street Journal reported that the federal government decided about three years ago not to order Ford Motor Co. to recall and fix 10 million faulty trucks it had produced. The vehicles are capable of suddenly backing up by themselves and killing people. Ford didn't recall the cars; it saved $100 million by sending out warning letters and stickers...
...think our proctors encouraged it at first because it promoted residence team man ship," Susan J. Rich '87, another Holworthy resident, said, adding "that it was a shame to break a hundred-year-old tradition...
...brief respite. Within 15 minutes, as the crowd shouted, "Shame, shame," guards had reshackled the prisoners and led them back to their cells. The government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was detaining the officers without charges under Zimbabwe's broad Law and Order Maintenance Act, announced Minister of Home Affairs Herbert Ushewokunze, because their release would "be a danger to public safety and order...