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Whoopi Goldberg Comedian and co-host of The View, who is an Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress...
...President is an intellectual dissident with a lifelong habit of fighting against the majority view. That drove him to persuade the ANC to talk to apartheid's rulers, not just fight them. And it led him to steer the ANC away from its Marxist faith and toward the free market. But that same contrarian instinct is also behind the positions for which he has been most harshly criticized: his refusal to condemn Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and his skepticism, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, that hiv is the principal cause of aids. Granted, his behind-the-scenes diplomacy...
...fail to clean up after themselves. Or we reach under a desk only to find a sticky wad of gum greeting unsuspecting fingertips. Such behavior reeks of seven-year-old self-centeredness. Supposedly, Harvard students are above that. But this speaks to a more general problem: Too often, students view one another as obstacles or means to an end. It’s the same kind of mentality on display in the New York subway as travelers scramble and shove past one another to squeeze onto trains. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that communities, from...
...response to a question about the UC’s role in increasing racial, cultural, and social diversity, Willey said, “That is not an area where the UC, in my view, should dabble...
...however, as British foreign minister David Miliband said, "common sense" prevailed. Gibbons was freed and Khartoum remained calm. But rather than view the Gibbons case as yet another example of a radical regime's autocratic abuse, the West would do well to realize that the events in Khartoum expose the government's weakness, and not its strength...