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...influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist revolutionaries, for example, absorbed Marxism's critique of the capitalist West. Hence, the authors insist, the rise of anti-American hatred in Islamic nations "is not ... a civilization at war with another ... [I]t is a tale of cross-contamination, the spread of bad ideas." These bad ideas have made many Muslims paranoid about the West. Thus, they see the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers not as a breakdown of the system but as typical of the West's depravity...
Still, Verba says concern has subsided in the ensuing months while word of the University’s standardized response system—as spelled out on the ubiquitous quick-reference sheet—has spread. He says he hasn’t heard concerns from faculty members or researchers since the Faculty meetings last year...
After the Plessy ruling, segregation laws spread like pestilence to include street cars, buses, taxicabs, schools, water fountains, bathrooms, juries, movie theaters, parks, facilities for the blind, libraries, lunch counters, hotels, waiting rooms, visiting days at the zoo, swimming pools, beaches and so on ad infinitum. They were so complete and cruel that, in the eyes of the law, African-Americans were essentially sub-human. During World War II, Nazi prisoners of war in the United States were permitted to eat in diners and ride in train cars in which uniformed black GI’s could not. Blood supplies...
...course itself had all the initial administrative probalems that one might expect from someone who is not by training an academic,” Connor said. “Elvis is spread very thin right...
Pendleton added that last year’s attrition has already spread the staff too thin, and that these additional 12 cuts would handicap the library further...