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In an editorial titled "Opening to Islam," La Repubblica of Rome praised what it dubbed "the Prodi doctrine"--Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's call this week for intense dialogue with the Muslim world, including "rogue states" like Libya and Iraq, to avert the threat of a conflict between Islam and the West in the next millennium.
In Britain, Kohl was praised as a figure of major historical importance, but his departure was welcomed by papers opposing greater integration of Britain into Europe.
Director John Irvin's ( Widows' Peak ) City of Industry is praised for not being a hyperstylized Tarantinoesque crime movie.
Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.
You only have to imagine a state policy applying the high-school quota system to, say, basketball scholarships--and explicitly being praised by state officials as a way to increase the number of white basketball players--to realize how empty the claims are that this arrangement avoids the alleged evil of racial preference.