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Taylor, a recovering alcoholic, grew up in public housing in Roxbury, one of Boston's roughest neighborhoods, and was drawn into a vicious cycle from childhood...
Slavery was a remarkably cruel, vicious and unjust system. But in the world's history, it is one among many injustices that might deserve reparations. When there are so many ancient crimes that could be grounds for compensation, how does one decide which victims to reimburse, and on what scale? Paying monetary reparations for crimes many generations after the fact places governments in the morally awkward position of deciding which groups have suffered more than others and thereby deserve larger cash payments...
...political voice? The issues being focused upon reflect our apathy. Candidates expect our vote to be trivial, and are focusing on issues directed at an older demographic. Issues of campaign finance reform and health care seem far removed from our everyday lives. In essence, our inaction has created a vicious cycle which threatens to drive our voice out of the political process: Youth seem disinterested in politics, so candidates focus on issues unimportant to us, resulting in further apathy...
...calling the demonstrations silly, and saw his mayoral approval rating plummet. After the verdict last week, Giuliani reached out to the Diallo family but spent as much energy calling on angry citizens to "put their prejudices and biases aside. We have racism in New York...We also have a vicious form of antipolice bias." The First Lady, who had already apologized for the murder remark, was more cautious in her reaction. She asked people "to strive for a better understanding of the incredible risk police face," and for police and citizens "to treat each other with mutual respect." Her remarks...
...Romans dealt with this through the ritual of damnatio memoriae, the condemnation of memory. To make it seem as if as a vicious person had never lived, all statues of him were destroyed or recarved, his name effaced from public inscriptions and documents related to him destroyed. The ritual provided a clear message that his behavior had been unacceptable and tried to remove the blot on the history of Rome that his crimes had created...