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Osterberg echoed Kim's sentiment...
...sense of guilty introspection swept the country when the FBI released sketches of the suspects, distinctly Caucasian John Does 1 and 2. Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes...
...standards, he kept the audience captivated and focused. Mansfield, on the other hand, trotted out the same tired and pathetic arguments against affirmative action that he probably gives in his daily lectures. Nothing new here. Jackson's comment to Mansfield probably summed up most of the audience's sentiment: "After hearing you, I'm not surprised white men are worried about competition." At the conclusion of the program, Jackson commented brusquely that by having Mansfield share the podium, "the Dean [Carnesale] is obviously still trying to give help to white men." Jackson was indignant, and rightly...
Today, juries are meticulously purged of jurors with any outside knowledge of the case, and--popular sentiment to the contrary--jurors are supposed to follow the law not their moral senses...
...back in 1946. There was more to come: for Vietnamese, the "re-education" camps, the flight of the boat people, the gradual softening of a harsh communist regime. For Americans, the new sensation of total, undisguisable defeat. But amid all the joy, bitterness, fear and misery, the overwhelming sentiment of Americans, and even of some Vietnamese, was probably the one voiced by Kenneth Moorefield. The war had dominated his entire adult life: he had studied its strategy as a West Point cadet, fought in it as an infantry officer from 1967 to 1970, returned to Vietnam as a foreign-service...