Word: validities
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Many people in business have valid stories of the burdens of regulations gone awry. But this year the Republican majority has filled the Capitol with stories of absurd excesses, many of them apocryphal. According to one bogus story, the Federal Government requires buckets to leak so children won't drown in them. Another says sand has been ruled a toxic substance. Nevertheless, myth and personal anecdote are powerful weapons...
...equally valid symbol of the tribe's future fortunes, at least at this particular historical juncture, can be found 19 miles away at Wounded Knee, where a band of peaceful Sioux were mowed down by the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in 1890. Here is a man in ragged, dirty jeans and a filthy red T shirt. His face is puffy and pockmarked, and there is liquor on his breath. His hand outstretched, he claims he is the caretaker of the Oglala Sioux cemetery...
...only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line"--be just as valid in the twenty-first? I like to doubt...
...China expelled two U.S. Air Force officers after detaining them for several days on charges of spying. "We're not aware of anything out of the routine about their travel in China," White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said today, adding that the men carried diplomatic passports and valid visas. The Americans, who were caught last week shooting videotape and taking pictures off China's southern coast in an area where military maneuvers were recently held, were expelled after Secretary of State Warren Christopher met yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Christopher reportedly did not mention the two during...
...received from the Unabomber that came with a copy of the terrorist's as yet unpublished 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto. The correspondence followed remarks that the professor made about the case to the press. The gist of Tyler's message to the Unabomber: your manifesto raises some valid points, but none that justify blowing people...