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Diversity is a term bandied about our campus with the reckless abandon that literary scholars toss around "intertextuality" or "gender" as a verb. We chair committees, establish organizations and plan events with the expressed purpose of bringing about greater "diversity" in the student population or the faculty. Diversity in this sense translates into a greater percentage of minority, female or homosexual members in the Harvard community at large...
Frank said his greatest fear during that time was that supporters would abandon him on the premise that "because he's gay he's going to be ineffective...
...once again approaching, and predictably, the ultimatum is becoming less ultimate. Not that China has taken any steps to remedy its dismal record of engaging slave labor and persecuting dissidence; in fact, in the last few months, Jiang Zemin's regime has bullied prominent dissidents with a particularly gleeful abandon. At his Seattle summit with Secretary of State Warren "the Romulan" Christopher, Jiang struck a strident tone, warning the hapless Secretary to lay off China's internal affairs...
This evidence--that a fetus is a human life--is the reason that pro-lifers cannot abandon the abortion debate. I have been interested of late to hear advocates of abortion calling for us to go "beyond abortion." It is unfortunate that by this they mean that we should all accept the fact of abortion, stop talking about it and move to other issues...
Most rare-metals traders, however, abandon any pretense of legitimacy and begin to act more like characters in a Hollywood thriller. Buyers, accompanied by bodyguards carrying suitcases of cash and by their own scientific experts for testing the goods, fill hotels in Baltic ports, where Russian smugglers congregate. The sellers are most likely to be mafia-connected hustlers or former KGB agents -- some of whom have even set up joint ventures with former CIA agents to smuggle strategic materials. The trade is so brisk that Estonia has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of rare metals, even...