Ethnic Passion: GOOD OLD REPRESSION DISTORTED MEMORY DEBILITATES THE IMPETUS TO PLUNGE AHEAD
As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, "My wallet is gone!" At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon.The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will do nothing to stop the systematic rip-off. This is not an...
Ethnic Passion: FATHER BRINGS SPECIAL MEANING TO OSU FOOTBALL
This poem was submitted a couple of months ago, but it seemed appropriate on Father's Day. I condensed it slightly.. Editor: Growing up, my dad always took me and my two sisters to Buckeye football games. We had so much fun with him, and he taught us the whole spectrum of football. I live in Indiana now and see my dad frequently. I still love Ohio State football and I wrote a poem for my dad: Our Game When I was a little girl there was this magic place You took me there...
Ethnic Passion: Past evils forgotten in tumult of freedom behind old Iron Curtain Those shaken by change should direct their rage at the real villains, not at minorities and recent immigrants.
BUDAPEST - As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, "My wallet is gone! " At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon. The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will do nothing to stop the systematic ripoff....
Ethnic Passion: Democratic values not progressing everywhere And it may be that in some places, democracy isn't appropriate
Every once in a while, some of our best thinkers seem to agree in a new synthesis of America's role in the world. So I have sensed it recently, in the important ongoing debate about spreading American democracy throughout the world.First, last spring, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser under the Carter administration, reflected in a major speech: ``What we see before us is not a New World Order but global turmoil and philosophical confusion. It is much...
Ethnic Passion: Europe's strange communostalgia
As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, "My wallet is gone!" At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon.The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will do nothing to stop the systematic rip-off.This is not...