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...immediacy. Much as an artist is able to do when he[an error occurred while processing this directive] distances himself from the familiar, so time enables us to look back at what once confused us, until all becomes clear. Well, maybe. There are episodes whose meaning, no matter how many times you turn them over, just won't be pinned down. Whatever it was that happened in Hungary 50 years ago is one of them. Did the short-lived government of Imre Nagy, a Communist reformer, mark the moment when it became clear that Soviet domination of Eastern and Central...
...conservative base and Congressional Republicans. President George W. Bush may have made the bad decisions, but he has been enabled by what you might call the Hannitizing of the party base and legislators—the nearly conscious willingness to become so indoctrinated that the facts begin to matter less than the party line interpretation of those facts, such that one forsakes the ends for which one initially joined the party in order to support the party as an end in itself...
...disheartened to see the editorial “A Box of Their Own” (Oct. 13). I am a gay alum and I am concerned about your decision to call being gay a “private” matter. Being gay is not a “private” matter in so far as discrimination is concerned. I am not entitled to many of the same rights that heterosexuals are—I cannot serve in the military and still live my life honorably, I cannot marry, and in many states, I am not even entitled...
...State Republican party Chairman Bob Davis has called the allegations of racism ludicrous, but whether the photos were intentionally darkened does not matter, says Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. "The only plausible reason to use such a picture is to play the race card - in an effort to frighten and fire up white voters in a key senatorial race," Parham wrote in an editorial on the Center's website. "Whether they acted with malice or moral callousness doesn't really matter, the end result is race as a wedge issue...
...Both Congressman Hastings and Congresswoman Harman are strong leaders on issues of importance to the pro-Israel community and would be exemplary Democratic leaders for the House intelligence committee," Dorton said. "AIPAC would never engage in a quid pro quo in relation to a federal investigation or any federal matter and the notion that it would do so is preposterous. AIPAC is not aware that the Justice Department is looking into issues involving the intelligence committee, and has not been asked any questions or contacted by the government on this matter, but certainly would cooperate with any inquiry." Dorton added...