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...tougher and scrappier than most-or perhaps the crocs and lions simply had their B-teams out that day. Whatever the answer, one of the best thing about the alternate-reality, user-driven world of the Web is the freedom it provides-in the absence of alternative evidence-to invent the endings we'd like to see. Judging by the 6,000-plus responses, in the YouTube world at least, the baby's doing just fine...
...sentiment that motivated this campaign, we ought to embrace the effort, in order to demonstrate a campus wide commitment to racial progressivism. In this way, we may show that this is, in fact, our Harvard—not the divisive community Counter and his gang would like to invent as a weapon in their hyper-p.c. crusade...
Ncube:They do harass you in every way. They invent things about you. They say I am gay, which is far from the truth. This phone is tapped. They could kill me any time if they wanted to. They say that when you have 20 people together, one or two of them will be Mugabe's spies. He has infiltrated everywhere, even the Church. I don't care. I will say what I want to say. I will not be quietened. I am not their slave. I do get afraid. But there comes a time when you have to overcome...
...style and rhetoric of its counter-movement. If an old value cannot be sustained through historical memory, there must be an extremely compelling reason—beyond say, a mostly controllable health risk—for its defense to continue. And if bearers of a cause have to invent new justifications for their beliefs—if they are unwilling to ascribe to (or admit to ascribing to) traditional justifications, they may be out of luck in sustaining their cause...
...that Jamestown was a giant gamble. The trials were severe, the errors numerous, the losses colossal, the gains, eventually, great. Life in Jamestown was a three-way tug-of-war between daily survival, the settlers' own preconceptions and the need to adapt to a new world. Jamestown did not invent America, but in its will to survive, its quest for democracy, its exploitation of both Indians and slaves, it created the template for so many of the struggles--and achievements--that have made us who we are. It contained in embryo the same contradictions that still resonate in America today...