Word: vigilantism
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Thursday, one day after the Bush administration announced plans to phase out salmonella testing for ground beef bound for school lunch programs, the administration backtracked in the face of rising consumer ire. Officials now insist they will keep the vigilant - or excessive, according to the beef industry - screening processes implemented...
Happily, my friend is vigilant. When she goes out to eat, she grills waiters about recipes and ingredients. She carries a penlike syringe of super-strength antihistamine, which she is prepared to plunge into her thigh in the case of accidental almond consumption. And, of course, she reads food labels...
Of course, nothing could be the same after Columbine, and now Santee. As long as sad little boys can find guns, schools must be vigilant. But at what price? Today it seems as though an arms race has begun in American high schools: as a tiny number of disaffected kids...
...McDaniel, director of the Center for the Prevention of School Violence: "We still have a lot of people saying it could not happen here, but we have a lot more who are realizing they need to be vigilant." The question is, Can administrators and students be vigilant without being vigilantes...
We should be grateful for people like Horowitz and Mansfield. Their arguments don't always convince us, but they should remind us of how vigilant and valiant we all must be in defending the right of people everywhere to be controversial. We should try harder to remember the immortal words...