Professor James Walston, of the American University of Rome, said: "The difficulty for the opposition now will be to separate personal sympathy for someone who has had his faced smashed in from institutional antipathy towards what it is Berlusconi stands for".
He did something wonderful and pioneering, in "The Varieties of Religious Experience," when he separated out a descriptive sympathy for belief from any kind of theological endorsement of it.
Now, I'm no historian, but that line is pretty darn close to the line separating the area of Tory sympathy from Connecticut hotbeds of revolution in the second half of the 18th century, with -- and I'm not making any value judgments here -- the Yankee territory supporting the Crown and the Red Sox country supporting the insurrection.
I do feel sympathy for the mother separated from her 2- and 5-year-old, though.
Should I send a sympathy card, and then a separate card with a check and note that I'd like to help with their expenses?
I had sympathy for the families being separated, for the students who reportedly were detained and for U.S. green-card holders who, at least initially, may not make it home.
I guess in the end -- and maybe this is hard to admit -- I had trouble separating the facts of the crime from my sympathy for Jeremy".
Many others are trafficked to orphanages in the capital that exist to snare the sympathies of well-intentioned foreigners and separate them from their money.
Hungarian officials said Nyirő's writings should be separated from his politics, rather as Ezra Pound's sympathy for fascism does not detract from the quality of his poetry.The Romanian government did not agree.
General Anwar Sadat, Nasser's successor, made a separate peace with Israel in Camp David, gathering western sympathies, but loosing the Egyptian's leadership of the Arab world.
