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...repression that had left more than 3,000 dead since the 1991 coup. It treated men denounced as thugs as "honorable" officials worthy of "mutual respect." The blithe spirit that obliterated previous animosities even accorded a measure of legitimacy to de facto president Emile Jonassaint, 81, caricatured as the spineless puppet of the junta. No less than the President of the United States said, "I had the absolutely incorrect impression that Jonassaint was a figurehead." If Jonassaint is sanitized, indeed laureled, is there need for Aristide? While avoiding bloodshed, the agreement has raised contentious questions...
...then how can anyone be sure that she knows the truth? How can you wholeheartedly promote your views while thinking that your opponents might actually be right after all? The solution is that you have to be either schizophrenic or half-hearted about your convictions. And judging from the spineless, gelatinous character of most liberals at Harvard (especially when radical feminists and multiculturalists starting getting illiberal on them), it must be psychologically easier to be half-hearted than schizophrenic...
Reno comes from a long line of memorable women. "Mother's mother and Father's mother were absolutely indomitable," says Janet's brother Robert Reno, a New York Newsday columnist. "All the women in the family were. The men were strong too. They just had no talent for marrying spineless women." Janet's maternal grandmother Daisy Sloan Hunter Wood was a genteel Southern lady who lost her own mother and two sisters to tuberculosis and instilled in her children and grandchildren a passionate commitment to duty and family. In World War II, daughter Daisy became a nurse, landing with General...
...Colin L. Powell comes to Harvard Commencement, and instead of attacking him for his spineless refusal to commit U.S. forces to stopping the slaughter in Bosnia, you slam him for his attitude toward gays...
Unfortunately, a spineless overreaction to the Baird fiasco prevented Clinton from nominating Wood. That decision is a political setback for Clinton's administration, an unfortunate loss for the country and a grievous injustice to Kimba Wood...