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...invited King to speak at their Class Day exercises. His widow, Coretta Scott King, now had to come to Cambridge to speak in his place. On June 12, exactly one week after the Kennedy killing, Mrs. King admonished the Class of 1968 to “speak out with righteous indignation” against what she called “the forces which are seeking to destroy...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Class of 2008 | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...have taken to the streets. Harvard’s Class of 2008 enjoyed a tame final semester, without any takeovers of University Hall. This irritates some from my generation who would like to see today’s college students responding with a bit more “righteous indignation” to the war in Iraq. We denigrate today’s youth as too coddled and self-absorbed to care. Not fearing military service, thanks to an all-volunteer army, today’s students can afford focus their energies on resume building, graduation parties, and summer travel...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Class of 2008 | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...There's that much evil in the world? And Clint, thinking more about storytelling craft than Cannes crockery, would say, Sure. But there are heroes too. And this time, the righteous gunslinger is a mom with no weapon but her inexhaustible love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint and Angelina Bring a Changeling Child to Cannes | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

...should pause before we get too caught up in collective righteous outrage (particularly inappropriate for those, like me, who don’t think abortion is murder in any sense of the word). Doesn’t this all seem familiar somehow? Haven’t we seen this scene replayed dozens of times in art galleries from London...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Tabloid Art | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...public consumption, so that it has been rendered, in Wright's word, "invisible." And it is because of that invisibility that Wright's sermons seemed so shocking and out of the mainstream. In reality, the two strands fit together - the unbearable optimism of "I Have a Dream" and the righteous anger of "I cannot be silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeremiah Wright Goes to War | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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