It is altogether appropriate for Duke to join the rest of the nation in events of remembrance of Sept. 11. But beyond remembrance the Duke community and its religious components would do well to hold as integral to this special day a vigil for peace to countermand the bellicosity of a national administration.
The latter, with the timorous consent of the mass media, seems bent on taking and keeping the country on a warpath, rendering evil unto evil.
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