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...Thich Nhat Hanh's followers say he has also has had to contend with communist obstruction. Originally, the Grand Requiem ceremonies were to be billed in Vietnamese as the "Grand Requiem for Praying Equally for All to Untie the Knots of Unjust Suffering." But Vietnamese officials objected, saying it was improper to "equally" pray for soldiers in the U.S.-backed South Vietnam army, not to mention American soldiers. "The spirit of the Vietnamese people doesn't agree with the idea of praying for foreign imperialists coming to kill millions of Vietnamese," says Bui Huu Duoc, director of the government...
...perpetuates negative black stereotypes. But it’s not real life, and most people realize this. Besides, we do have a way to make the stuff we don’t like go away. In the same way a frustrated Congress has the power to alter an unjust war by adjusting the President’s funds, we as consumers can make hip-hop whatever we want it to be. If we don’t buy it, the artists won’t make it. It’s that simple...
...President Bush’s policy on homosexuality, Mailer’s narrator reveals that he “took a hand in the jury’s deliberations” at the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde. But rather than condemning Wilde’s unjust imprisonment, the result of Mailer’s comment is to excuse it—turning an act of persecution and intolerance into an unavoidable supernatural intervention into human affairs. The novel does contain some wonderfully rendered scenes near the end, as when Adolf reacts to the burning of his father?...
...little, too late, they're wrong to dis his call to reform today's regressive health-tax exclusion. A nearly invisible $200 billion subsidy that tilts its largesse toward executives in high tax brackets and workers who already have rich plans would normally be assailed by liberals as unjust. But because this particular subsidy bolsters hefty benefits negotiated by their union allies, Democrats overlook the inequity. "It's ironic and embarrassing," says Len Nichols, a former Clinton health official now at the New America Foundation. Farsighted Democrats admit as much. Andy Stern, the leader of the Service Employees International Union...
...heart, this is an issue of 21st century political correctness. The history of unjust dealings with Native Americans is utterly reprehensible and there’s an impulse to try to make amends now, post-violence, by outlawing stereotypical depictions of indigenous culture. Or, wait, is it American Indians? The list of too-sensitive nouns and verbs is changing and expanding so rapidly I fear I’ll be consigned to writing columns composed only of prepositions by the time my stint in this space is over...