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Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.
I hope so, although I was not heartened by an article I read this morning in the Los Angeles Times about the fact that despite numerous hate crimes laws on the books, few are being implemented by police, who appear to decline to report obvious hate crimes as such.
I am only in favor of subjecting them to criticism, which is what I have done in the pages of Commentary , and which I was heartened to see Shulevitz has herself now done in
Those of us who have labored in the field of black studies (politically incorrectly such as the present author or very much politically correctly like a good many very good scholars) are heartened by this commercial venture.
The review was not a good one, but I was heartened to hear that the author--an early Web pundit and entrepreneur--was arguing that humans have liked speed since the beginning of time.