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...opponents this year, which is a badge of honor in these days of furiously massaged political messages. He has supported free trade and school vouchers, and he has excoriated Hollywood for its excesses. Leave aside the wisdom of these positions; his willingness to take them stands in stark relief to, say, the candidacy of John Kerry, who has claimed "courage" as his theme and managed to take not a single inconvenient or unfudged position on any issue in this campaign. It also stands in contrast to Dean's furious backpedaling from earlier and wiser positions on old-age-entitlement reform...
...while a head scarf worn by a young girl is not? Why should one kind of head scarf be permitted, and another outlawed? For non-Muslims, the rulings challenge long-held views about the relationship between Europe's Christian traditions and official state secularity. For Muslims, they are stark evidence of the difficulties they can face when trying to observe their faith. And for all of Europe, they are a reminder of how far society still has to go before it becomes as comfortable - and fair - as it is multicultural. As director of Marseilles's Saint Mauront Catholic school, Jean...
...central fact about himself--one that should make him proud but gave him shame. He is black, though he looks white. And since his teens he has renounced his race and his family to "pass" as a Caucasian. He told no one; only he can appreciate the stark irony of his predicament...
...send an ambiguous message to our troops, and we must not send an uncertain message to our friends and enemies in Iraq." This will not help Gephardt in Iowa, but it was an act of courage--Lieberman has made a habit of such acts in this campaign--and a stark contrast to the position taken by both Kerry and Clark, the two alleged warriors in the Democratic field...
...among others, it’s as simple as that. Nobody but the Americans in the room flinched. Nobody else thought there was anything strange about summing up a whole people so cuttingly. In too many Latin American countries, the stark realities are these: the whites hold the money and power, the whites look down on the darker people, the battles of class are also battles of race. Shouldn’t this sound familiar...