Cal's motto is "Not all wrongs can be righted.
Furthermore, the Book of Job seems to claim that all wrongs can be righted by property.
If the beginning of the Dreyfus story is Maupassant, and the middle Kafka, the end is Victor Hugo, a victory of the romantic, progressive imagination: wrongs can be righted; in the long run things work out for the best.
(God, for all that he says from the whirlwind, never answers Job's questions). Furthermore, the Book of Job seems to claim that all wrongs can be righted by property.
Citizens of a country that disappeared entirely from the map for centuries and where borders have repeatedly shifted may not expect that all the wrongs of the past, not even all those of World War II, can be righted.
Some, such as Christopher Hitchens, would see such sacrificial scapegoating as a natural extension of Christian theology which, after all, has at its heart the doctrine of the vicarious atonement, which Hitchens finds an appalling extension of the idea that wrongs can be righted by sacrificing an innocent scapegoat to God.
While the experts theorize about what caused the mishap -- loose soil or a faulty drilling machine are among the prime suspects -- and the city explores whether the tower can be righted, people here are savoring the fact that their one-stop town has become, if temporarily, a two-stop one.
Traumatic memories persist, but wrongs can be righted with love.
But some workers may want to go back simply to see if the wrong they uncovered can be righted.
Can be righted, and saved.
However Latino and Asian immigration has added a whole new dimension to the idea that minority inequality can be righted by thinking in terms of racial characteristics alone.
