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...majority opinion, along with President Reagan, calls on our European allies to sever economic relations with Libya, which has been flimsily termed a "terrorist state" by disturbing numbers of centrists as well as the right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks...
...education can be found than in the Jewish community in America. Beer points out the similarity in the two group's American backgrounds: "Both Jews and Black Americans came from impoverished and backward ghettos. Both were subject to severe legal and informal harassment for centuries, not to mention periodic slaughter.... Some find it incredible that Jews come from a background similar to theirs...
...problem, for the past 100 years, has been paying for them. As the land-owning families of England were depleted by the long agricultural depression of the late 19th century, by the introduction of death duties and by the slaughter of their sons in the First World War, so their houses declined. In the century from 1875 to 1975, over 1,100 were demolished, more than half of them since...
...feel the sale of less than one percent of Harvard's stock, presumably an example of "constructive engagement," does not represent any real change in Harvard's substantial economic involvement in that country. The daily repression and slaughter of Black people in South Africa makes a mockery of the argument that slow progress is being achieved...
...save the dream and the power. It was all of Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...