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...pivotal question is whether the appeal of the Nation of Islam -- and of Farrakhan -- is separable from his invective of hate. Leaders throughout history have found it is often easier to succumb to demagoguery, to define a single scapegoat and offer a single solution to life's ills, especially when proposing self-restraint and sacrifice. Would young people choose the hard way of Islam without the zealotry of separatism and resentment? Could Farrakhan fill the seats of big-city convention centers if he stopped offering the allure of the outrageous, the unpredictable, the unspeakable spoken out loud? Perhaps the answer...
...that speaks to this alienation and provides a direction for healing the wounds generated by a society based on selfishness and materialism. One tragic irony of black anti-Semitism is how easily it becomes yet another justification for some Americans to declare themselves "disillusioned" with the oppressed. So they succumb to the allures of American selfishness, lower their taxes by cutting social programs for the poor, and shut their eyes to the suffering of others...
...little wonder, then, that this latest wave of immigrants may become at least as controversial as any in U.S. history. Normally tolerant Americans succumb to complaints about the newcomers' contributions to crime and disease, about the burdens on schools and welfare rolls. The net cost of immigrants to the government could reach into the billions. In a poll conducted for Time by Yankelovich Partners Inc. this fall, three-quarters of those questioned felt that the nation's current policy has got out of hand and that the government should limit immigration more strictly...
...story of the Square is a neverending saga of independently owned shops (J. F. Olsson & Co., The Bookcase, Reading International) that succumb to high rents, only to be replaced by trendy yuppie huts (The Body Shop, Origins, WordsWorth Abridged). "The Shops by Harvard Yard" is only the latest installment. And every time another landlord drops out of the Harvard Square rat race, we compose another elegy to a neighborhood whose character is quickly fading...
...People that are in powerful market positions,like us, can easily succumb to this kind ofarrogance that we know what everybody needs," thedean said. "What we're trying hard to do inthis--and we have years of discussions left tomake our way through it--is to understand allthese things going on around us and see what itmeans...