Word: ages
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...join the Academy unless we have contributed large sums of money or are in the upper echelons of Hollywood society (e.g. have already won an Academy award). These rules are a problem, seeing as their application has resulted in an Academy whose members are old (median age over 50), predominately white men. That leaves a significant part of the country out of the loop. This being a democracy, the people must be spoken...
Instead, the committee proposed appointingFriedlander, who is nearing retirement age, to aguest professorship while the committee continuedits search...
...Fire out of Control" whose spread was endangering a number of Yanomamo villages. Despite the well-intentioned concern for the Yanomamo voiced in the article, I was truly surprised at the racist assumptions pervading the description of this people. Beginning with a description of the Yanomamo as a "Stone Age tribe," the article concludes with the following: "For centuries, the Yanomami lived in virtual isolation, hunting and fishing with bow and arrows. They have no written language and count only up to two--anything more is 'wahoro,' or many...
...assumptions behind this article go beyond simple word choice to present a distinct worldview. The account places the Yanomamo squarely into an evolutionary view of human societies with "Stone Age tribes" at one end and Euro-American high culture at the other. This is the same worldview that contrasts the confused, pathologically bilingual, overly emotional Latino to the modern, rational Anglo. It is the same worldview that sends pseudo-scientists racing around measuring Negro skulls. Never mind that we are all living at the same point in time and that all human beings and human cultures are equally deserving...
...apron and a bandanna, she was responsible for the cinnamon rolls early in the day and later for muffins, kneading bread and waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when she was a customer," recalls Jason Lord, one of her many college-age co-workers, "but she was a very good person." Kenneth Starr certainly considers her an asset, granting her immunity before her grand-jury testimony. That will insulate her from perjury charges for any lies she may have told in her deposition to Paula Jones' lawyers and may help protect her from...