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          Plutarch tells a story, perhaps apocryphal,  about Julius Caesar and his party as they passed through a small Alpine village.  His friends jokingly asked whether even in such an isolated and poor setting men still strived and scrabbled for power and office.  Caesar very seriously declared that he would rather be the foremost man [...]

     Everybody is familiar with the pervasive bigotry and racism that has so long run like a dark strain of feculence through so many societies.  Today,  in our society at least, most of us join together in condemning these destructive attitudes that have caused so much pain, suffering and death.  We do this despite the fact [...]