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David K. Shipler _ The Working Poor: Invisible in
At the extremes of the debate, liberals don't want to see the dysfunctional family, and conservatives want to see nothing else. Depending on the ideology, destructive parenting is either not a cause or the only cause of poverty. Neither stereotype is correct. In
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David K. Shipler _ Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits
History in the Middle East has a marvelous elasticity. It is easily stretched, twisted, compressed in the hands of its custodians, squeezed to fit into any thesis of righteous cause or pious grief. But it also has a way of springing back into an inconvenient form, a shape made of hard reminders. Certain features of the past remain as immutable as the ancient stones in Jerusalem-the Western Wall of huge Herodian blocks, the outcropping of bedrock from which Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven, the stone core of Calvary now encased in ornate grillwork and marble in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The stones are cool to the touch, to the lips, to the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian fingers that tremble as they reach out in faith. The people are imprisoned by history. To draw the boldest outlines of the past is to make Israel's basic case. To sketch the present is to see the Arabs' plight.
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David K. Shipler _ Rights at Risk: The Limits of
The intelligence professional's passion to collect everything possible is nicely illustrated in an NYPD report under the rubric "Secret," and beneath a blacked-out box that may have contained notes from an infiltrator. The censored document declares ominously in large type: "LOCAL ACTIVIST GROUP TO USE ART MURALS IN ORDER TO SPREAD PEACE MESSAGE; GROUP MAY USE DIRECT ACTION METHODS IN CONJUNCTION WITH STREET THEATRE." It describes the organization as "a collective of artists dedicated to using artwork to spread the word of peace." It uses "murals, banners, posters, and street theatre during its actions.
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David K. Shipler _ Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
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David K. Shipler _ Rights at Risk: The Limits of
Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi-whether the three defendants or others-was not held to account.
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David K. Shipler _ Rights at Risk: The Limits of
Publications aren't the only forms of expression now governed by Hazelwood's ruling that speech can be limited when administrators claim ownership of the statement and think it's "unsuitable." Courts have applied the standard to plays, homework assignments, team mascots, and even cheer-leading.62 A cheerleader in Texas was kicked off the squad after she refused to cheer for a basketball player whom she had accused of sexually assaulting her at a party. {He and another boy had been arrested, but a grand jury had refused to indict them.} Her suit was thrown out by a federal district judge and a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit, which cited Hazelwood among other factors, noting, "In her capacity as cheerleader, {she} served as a mouthpiece through which {the school} could disseminate speech." The school, the judges ruled, "had no duty to promote {her} message by allowing her to cheer or not cheer, as she saw fit."63
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David K. Shipler _ Rights at Risk: The Limits of
Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can't hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don't like it.
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David K. Shipler _ Rights at Risk: The Limits of
If every American school taught the Bill of Rights in a clear and compelling way, if every child knew the fundamental rules that guide the relationships between the individual and the state, then every citizen would eventually feel the reflexive need to resist every violation. We had better begin now, for rights that are not invoked are eventually abandoned.
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David K. Shipler _ The Working Poor: Invisible in
Being poor is a full-time job, it really is.
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David K. Shipler _ Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits
Terrorism is theater. Its real targets are not the innocent victims but the spectators. Those on the political side of the dead are to be frightened, intimidated, cowed, perhaps drawn into ugly retaliation that will spoil their image among the disinterested, who in turn are to be impressed with the desperate vitality and significance of the movement behind the terrorism. Those on the side of the gunmen, the bombers, the hijackers, are to be encouraged that the cause is alive. The goal of terrorism is not to deplete the ranks of an army, to destroy an enemy's weapons, or to capture a military objective. It seeks an impact on attitudes, and so it must be spectacular. It relies on drama, it thrives on attention, it carries within it the seeds of contagion.
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David K. Shipler _ A Country of Strangers: Blacks
A key test for any society is whether or not it is self-correcting. And to be self-correcting, it must first be open and truthful about itself.
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David K. Shipler _ Rights at Risk: The Limits of
On their way to jail, to deportation from the country, or to expulsion from school, those who confront the muscle of the state frequently see their rights bruised, their liberties wounded. This book is about some of those people. Therefore, it is about all of us.
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