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Last Sunday, a vast sea of flannel poured into the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The woodsman’s beards and thick-rimmed glasses afloat in the swirling maelstrom of intentional hipness bobbed up and down in eager anticipation for the night’s event, torn jeans resting in the plush cushions of the museum’s auditorium. It was a strange atmosphere, as if this back-country-via-Inman-Square audience had been lured in and trapped in the MFA’s relatively sterile all-purpose theatre, and only when the night?...
...noted that in some instances, colonists intentionally infected Native Americans with smallpox. “But the vast majority of the suffering that was visited on the Native American population as the Europeans came was not a plan or an attack,” Summers said in the speech. “It was in many ways a coincidence...Nobody’s plan...
...first category is what I would call transient poverty. A person loses their job, there's a divorce, a mother with children is without jobs and not on welfare, and is caught in poverty. And if you look at the vast majority of the people who are poor right now [UNINTELLIGIBLE], more accurately if you look at the vast majority of people who for the first time showed up as under the poverty line this year, the substantial majority of them will not be poor two years from now. And then there is a rather different set of people...
...consequence of the diseases that came to North America with the European immigrants. There are fragmentary accounts of a kind of early biological warfare. You know, let's wrap a blanket around somebody who has smallpox and then encourage some other people to use that blanket. But the vast majority of the suffering that was visited on the Native American population as the Europeans came was not a plan or an attack, it was in many ways a coincidence that was a consequence of that assimilation. Nobody's plan. But that coincidence caused an enormous amount of suffering...
...truth is that the vast majority of the opponents of the constitutional treaty are anything but opposed to European integration. European integration can mean much more than the political elite’s version consisting of simply of free trade and fair competition, which are de rigueur but not sufficient. For France, European integration can and should mean believing that an alternative model of power with its own distinctive political inspiration is still possible, and saying so before it’s too late...