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...amazed. "You're not interested in promoting productive discourse?" I asked. (I swear I said this. My roommates will confirm that I talk like that all the time...
...Hand me another BAR!" shouted Sands. "I swear I hit that yellow bastard...
Rest assured that the same people who would gladly see laws passed discouraging homosexuality with punishments perhaps as severe as death would be suspicious of a onetime sinner and would treat him with prejudice even should he swear never to commit his crime again. In light of these truths we can see Peninsula's charade of caritas for what it is: a potentially influential camouflage for enduring hatred...
...latest unrest was prompted by Mobutu's ouster of his new Prime Minister, Etienne Tshisekedi, a leader of the opposition coalition, who had angered Mobutu by refusing to swear allegiance to him. Mobutu named a lesser opposition figure, Bernardin Mungul Diaka, as replacement. But Tshisekedi refused to step down. Instead, he rallied opposition support, and the standoff ! continued. What had started as a forced experiment in multiparty democracy had become a murderous farce, and it was far from over...
...allow him to sort through the thousands of note cards he has assembled for his next book, tentatively titled Metaphysics of Quality or Metaphysics of Value. And this book, as Phaedrus describes it, sounds interesting: an attempt to find some middle path between scientists and mystics, between those who swear by facts alone and those who dismiss them as irrelevant. He believes there must be a direct conduit between the physical and the spiritual, and gropes toward an initial formulation: "All life is a migration of static patterns of quality toward Dynamic Quality...