Word: wright
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Christopher announced today that the Bosnia peace talks will be held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, starting on October 31. TIME's Douglas Waller reports that the State Department sought a large facility that has roughly equal houses for each president -- where, as State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns put it, "they don't have to bump into each every morning over orange juice. They're all presidents and they don't like each other. If you put Milosevic in a building that's nicer than Tudjman's, there are going to be problems at the very...
...ready to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Speaker on at least some of the complaints lodged against him since he ascended to power. This amounts to Gingrich being Gingriched: it was the detective work of an outside counsel that forced then Speaker of the House, Democrat Jim Wright, to resign in disgrace in 1989. The crusading reformer agitating for the appointment of an independent counsel was none other than Gingrich. As he argued at the time, "The rules normally applied by the Ethics Committee to an investigation of a typical member are insufficient in an investigation...
...them the vote; their number in the House of Representatives is close to their proportion of the population; the black middle class has grown so large that it constitutes nearly a third of black families; African Americans of stature and achievement are everywhere in sight (see Colin Powell; Marian Wright Edelman; Ruth Simmons, the new president of Smith College; and Christopher Darden and Johnnie Cochran...
...someone locked in one room of a big house: "If you never go into that room, you don't know anything about [it]. If I come out of that room to clean many other things in the rest of the house, then I know about the whole house." Richard Wright said that the "Negro is America's metaphor." The idea is that black people, merely by existing, hold up a mirror to white America, in which it may see itself darkly...
Evolution declares that all life is the result of random chance and that there is no underlying meaning or point. Evolution is not only not an answer; it is very likely also a major part of the problem. How about this outstanding puzzle from Wright: "Natural selection...is our creator, but it isn't God." Why would not our creator be our God? Why is not God our creator? If God is not our creator, then he is nothing; and if he is nothing, then why even mention him? Wright should stick with the Unabomber. He's more relevant today...