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...people search for the answer to this question, I congratulate those who have already begun to address the "disturbing" Diallo verdict in a peaceful and ordered fashion. The black community has responded to a senseless act of violence in the right way. The protestors who could have degenerated into an angry mob marched calmly, practicing as well as preaching an end to violence between civilians and police. On campus, organizations sponsoring forum discussions instead of finger-pointing. Many public officials have called for better police training, and the former New York police commissioner has admitted that police brutality...
...exceedingly bad time for the Clinton administration, which is gearing up for a coming fight on China's entry into the World Trade Organization, in which it will have to counter both union opposition and new reports of Chinese human rights violations. The administration will have to act quickly to restore political support for positive U.S.-Sino relations and to make it clear to China how much has been jeopardized...
Where is this "privileged" position for heterosexual sex coming from? While there may be a figurative or emotional joining of two people in the sex act, this is just as much true of same-sex as of opposite-sex couples. I fail to see the distinction Moschella considers so obvious...
Hockey is a game of aggressive body checks, tough physical confrontation and exciting competition. Feel free to dismiss the criminal aspect of McSorley's brutal, cowardly act, but please leave Canada and its national pastime...
...partly as antidote to the current and somewhat fatalistic intellectual climate, in which immutable genes are supposed to explain the present and set the future in concrete. "Sometimes we talk as if there were no such thing as culture," he says. "Culture has a real effect on how we act and what we believe." So, there's the 1984 study that found that ABC News anchor Peter Jennings was more likely to smile on camera when talking about Ronald Reagan than Walter Mondale, and that in the same year the people who watched ABC News voted for Reagan in greater...