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70
Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1967
Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1968
U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1981
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1989
The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1995
The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
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The Trump administration signed a proclamation Wednesday suspending travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The proclamation also partially restricted entrance for nationals of seven other countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
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I need to change my Apple password. I sent a note and received a response that said they would send the necessary codes in several days.
Why does it seem these people are in vestments?
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So envy is the sadness over the attainments of another, and jealousy is the outrage over something misappropriated. The jealous man feels that something he might never have had has been lost to another.
In the redistribution world, wanting another's productivity--or the rewards of that productivity--is envy, as the envious man has no legitimate claim to it. Taking it away from its rightful owner is a reach for the envious, as the sadness of envy is passive. And to take someone's production requires force.
So, what to do? Envy politics transforms envy into jealousy by declaring that the production of another actually rightfully belongs to you. So, taking someone else's production is more like taking it back, and the force necessary is more justifiable.
The Trump administration signed a proclamation Wednesday suspending travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The proclamation also partially restricted entrance for nationals of seven other countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
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I need to change my Apple password. I sent a note and received a response that said they would send the necessary codes in several days.
Why does it seem these people are in vestments?
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Blockbuster CEO John Antioco decided not to buy Netflix for $50 million, partly because the “dot-com hysteria” was “completely overblown."
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Envy and Its Relatives
Thomas Aquinas defined Envy as "sadness on account of the goods possessed by others." Envy is sadness! It turns inward. How is it different from jealousy?
Envy's subject is removed from the envious; the envious man knows he has no claim upon the envied subject. He may covet another's property, but he knows it is not his. To attain it, he would have to steal it.
Jealousy is a different matter. Unlike envy, jealousy presupposes the right to what the other has. Othello was jealous of his wife's imagined affections for another; he felt, justly, that those affections should be his.
So envy is the sadness over the attainments of another, and jealousy is the outrage over something misappropriated. The jealous man feels that something he might never have had has been lost to another.
In the redistribution world, wanting another's productivity--or the rewards of that productivity--is envy, as the envious man has no legitimate claim to it. Taking it away from its rightful owner is a reach for the envious, as the sadness of envy is passive. And to take someone's production requires force.
So, what to do? Envy politics transforms envy into jealousy by declaring that the production of another actually rightfully belongs to you. So, taking someone else's production is more like taking it back, and the force necessary is more justifiable.
Sometimes the producer is not enlightened enough to see this. And, of course, as with Desdemona, sometimes accidents happen.
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