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...look at the murders of innocent men committed by the NYPD to see that racism is hardly just a Southern problem. And where is the protest over Al Sharpton, whose anti-Semitism and xenophobia match Haider's? It seems to me that we're concentrating on the wrong things. Instead of actually trying to fight racism in America, we fall into the same trap that people who whistle "Dixie" do: We become trapped in the past...
Zero-sum games create permanent enemies. The current zero-sum power game will produce tens of millions of losers if Harrington and Menino destroy Fenway Park. Instead, why not phase in an upper deck of perhaps 10,000 seats? Harrington gets expansion, Menino gets re-elected, the players remain rich and my nephew and I keep our memories. Fans and Fenway Park neighbors would prove patient with the ongoing reconstruction...
...Somewhere in the course of a 25-year marriage, my parents fell in love. They grew to see one another as more than just a partner they could pay off a mortgage with. Instead, the 19-year-old village girl and the 37-year-old bachelor had matured into people worth questioning nurses for, worth demanding second opinions for, worth protecting from hurried doctors and sloppy caretakers, worth spending nights in the emergency room for, worth putting their lives on hold...
...recent protests in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank demonstrate that the opposition to the prevailing economic order that sprang into public view during December's WTO protests in Seattle has not disappeared. Instead, it has grown stronger, picking two new targets that before would never have imagined themselves the objects of public vilification. Although the calls by some protestors to disband the IMF and World Bank are unjustified, the real question is whether the institutions can reform themselves so as to give greater consideration to the interests of the global poor--and whether...
Because the message was signed by Chang instead of its author and distributed through the APALSA list, many members took it as an official group communiqu...