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...long twilight struggle for justice will be won only if racism is eradicated. America salves her conscience with economic programs and formal civil rights legislation. Yet our nation continues to sin, and an egregious guilt rests upon our soul...
...real sin in Beijing's eyes may have been to give the lie to the common assertion of Asia's authoritarian regimes that East Asian cultures and de-mocracy do not mix. The element of Lee's platform that most disturbed the mainland was the powerful campaign slogan telling voters, "You're the boss." Says an Asian diplomat in Beijing: "Mainlanders are bound to ask, 'If the Taiwanese could directly elect their leaders, why can't we?'" This fear of democratic contagion comes at a difficult time for the Chinese leadership. While the Taiwanese people elected their President directly, China...
...horizon. With the destruction of the city imminent, Jimmy decides that, if he must die tomorrow, he will live this day to the fullest. The typhoon misses the city, but Jimmy's philosophy strikes a chord and the city, allowing everyone total freedom, descends to the deepest levels of sin...
...speech the previous week, Farmer criticized the life of sin he lived in college before he joined the BCC. He spoke about the lies he told his mother, his racist attitudes, his affairs with women and his drinking. "The funny thing is, people liked me," he says. "I was normal...
...start with what Ms. Milgrom-Elcott considers to be the "fundamental question" underlying these laws, namely that the U.S. might be reverting to a "Hester Prynne morality where one sin brands you for life with the Scarlet Letter of sexual ignominy and security-risk...