Word: westernness
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Having attended the speech, I noticed a great falsity presented in both stories. Martin did not spend the majority of his time speaking about Jewish contributions to the racism in the Western world. He merely gave evidence which suggested that pseudo-scientific racism stems from pseudo-religious racism, which first appeared in the Babylonian Talmud...
Mussolini remarked, "It's not so much that it is difficult to rule Italy. It's useless." Surveying the postelection wreckage, Bill Clinton may be tempted to endorse a similar thought. But the age of Mussolinis has ended (one trusts) in what are now the Western democracies. The age of pre-eminently powerful presidencies may be over as well. The focus of leadership disperses. The real "thousand points of light" in America are the new multiple centers of leadership in business, the sciences and arts, politics, religion, community life...
...debate has done nothing to quiet the sensational revelations of military wrongdoing that have flooded the press during the past two months. In a nation where men in uniform were once accorded a respect that borders on reverence, ordinary citizens were outraged to read reports that officers from the Western Group of Forces in Germany had personally profited from the withdrawal of Russian troops. The dimensions of the scandal are hard to measure, but by some estimates the state may have lost as much as $65 million to illegal financial deals involving the sale of military property in Germany during...
Last week's actions were a particularly galling demonstration of the failure by outsiders to resolve the 31-month-old war in the former Yugoslavia. At cross-purposes among themselves, the Western allies have been unable to muster measures capable of making a difference. They remain unwilling to use sufficient force to challenge Serb domination, and the Serbs and the Bosnians still refuse to agree on any settlement negotiated by mediators. The Serb reaction last week to U.N. scolding and NATO's minor bombing was almost contemptuous. In a telephone call to U.N. commander Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose...
Remember that Kennedy-Waxman national health-care plan? In 1974 we said one of its sponsors could "practically write his own ticket -- including a presidential one." Edward M. Kennedy was 42 back then, and we wrote that "Teddy's recent trip to the Soviet Union and Western Europe, plus his well-publicized sponsorship of health care legislation and an income tax cut, may be the opening shots in a bid for the White House." That bid actually came in 1980 -- and went...