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Totally changing the minds of almost one billion peasants is not an overnight task. It is impossible to put such abstract concepts as freedom on the agenda when the majority of a huge population is still uneducated and poor. If the government tells them, "Okay, now you have your human rights and can do anything you want," they are very likely to be confused and then use their freedom in undesirable ways. What are they going to do with their freedom, when all they care about is how to earn enough to buy meat as a luxury? To them, freedom...
...main question to be addressed in this context is not so much affirmative action in itself, but the broader matter of diversity as it relates to the quality, breadth, and texture of student learning. The primary purpose of diversity in university admissions, moreover, is not the achievement of abstract goals, or an attempt to compensate for patterns of past societal discrimination...
...started playing a lot more...it became such a release. Whereas before, music was sort of something I did in a very abstract way--I had a saxophone--now it started playing a day to day role in my life...
...learn languages before you're five. But I didn't really start playing, like really start worrying about learning music until I was 13. That's a tough age to pick up a new language. For me, music's one of the hardest things...Even sort of more abstract, sort of learned stuff, like math, that's easier for me," he sighs as he tries to explain...
...teller is given two opposing nicknames: some call him the Ocean of Notions, others the Shah of Blah. The same dichotomy can be seen in Rushdie. His political significance has less to do with his writing than it does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces we imagine to be somehow always operating in this world-- are brought to bear on lives that are rendered exquisitely, fantastically, and with a keen sense for the sublime within the mundane...