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...course of Napoleon's mad struggle for power, while the echo of the shots fired beside the Wannsee still rings in our ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist's death, on November 21, 1911, that the family overcame its sense of shame over this 'useless member of society, unworthy of any sympathy.' On that occasion they laid a wreath on his grave. The inscription on the ribbon read: 'To the best of his line...
...great exceptions. It is no accident, however, that these two exceptions, the movements of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, took place within the political and moral boundaries of liberal democratic politics steeped in constitutional values, and thus susceptible to the constraint of law and the power of shame. Where law and shame are less easily mobilized, nonviolence has not fared well...
...students, and others that have voted dissatisfaction with the responsiveness of the Faculty to their concerns. And he should very carefully listen to junior professors, for the policies of Rosovsky's successor could well determine whether these young scholars will become Harvard's future or Harvard's shame...
...PEOPLE of our generation have heard of Allard Lowenstein, and that is a shame. A leader of the young and an activist for peaceful change, Lowenstein was rarely out of the headlines during the 60s and 70s for his untiring captaincy of liberal causes. In 1980, at 51 he was the victim of an assassin's bullet. But today Lowenstein is in danger of becoming an unsung hero--one of the many who touched the pages of history but, holding no major office, became, little more than footnotes in political textbooks. Allard Lowenstein should not be relegated to a footnote...
Lawmakers who opposed the paper's call for change were cited in Clarion-Ledger editorials under the designation "Hall of Shame." Legislators protested the unaccustomed pressure, but at the urging of Governor William Winter, as well as the paper, they enacted new school taxes, across-the-board teacher pay raises, reading aid, a stronger compulsory-attendance law and state support for kindergartens. Said Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Charles Overby, 36: "Pulitzers have come to Mississippi before, some for reporting about things the state failed to do. This one is for what Mississippi...