Word: statements
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Statements such as "the occupation has produced a culture of violence, fear and racism in Israel and has forced American Jews to abandon the central values of reason and compassion" constitute a moral critique of whole diverse groups of people that is so general in nature that it could not be possibly true. This statement is so blatantly presumptuous that it is no wonder why the authors fail to give even one example of this moral failure or to describe exactly how they feel it has come about...
...education programs throughout the U.S. "I know this music can work," he says. "To play it, you have to have the belief in quality. And the belief in practice, the belief in study, belief in your history, belief in the people that you came out of. It is a statement of heroism against denigration...
...humanities help us learn who we are and what we are in the process of becoming," Bass said in a statement released by Yale...
...massive donation will strengthen humanities research in "an era of unprecedented demands upon American higher education," Schmidt said in a statement...
...breakthrough occurred at a White House breakfast for Democratic leaders on June 26. House Speaker Tom Foley urged Bush to make a short statement that "tax increases" would be a part of any budget accord. When Bush asked Foley to suggest such a statement, one observer said, "a lot of jaws in that room dropped." Foley dictated a version off the top of his head. Darman said it would take only a few minutes to draft, and began writing. He showed the draft to Sununu, who passed it to Foley. After a few changes, Bush looked it over, called...