And, in a symbolic gesture with broad resonance across the African-American community, Clinton signed into law on Friday legislation calling for a marker at the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the 1963 " I Have a Dream " speech given there by the slain civil rights leader, Dr . Martin Luther King Jr.
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Today its plea for a recovery of trust in the future has gained unexpectedly broad resonance & the book in a way signals the end of a period marked by divergent, even opposite tendencies : on the one hand, the " postmodern " fascination with " extraordinary " rupture ( or rapture ), and on the other, the streamlining of critical theory in the mold of a rule-governed, rationalist normalcy.