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The article recounts Weil's checkered history: As a Harvard undergraduate, he exposed Timothy Leary's LSD experiments, but he later did research concluding that marijuana is harmless.
What moves us in Keats is precisely this checkered metaphysics--the haunting apprehension that the seed planted in the "wide arable land of events" might be the seed of death, not life.
Proposals to help the Northern Alliance had been debated in the U.S. government since 1999 and, as we mentioned in chapter 4, the U.S. government as a whole had been wary of endorsing them, largely because of the Northern Alliance's checkered history, its limited base of popular support in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's objections.
Clearly, this rosily checkered past was soon to be replaced, chiefly, it seems, as Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Confucian-Buddhist cultures flourished.
Green means the sea is calm and a lifeguard is on duty; green plus a checkered flag means that no lifeguard is on duty; yellow urges caution; red means danger and warns bathers to stay ashore.