Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slot, junior Vedica Jain lost in straight sets to B.U. junior Selin Nassi, 6-2, 6-2. Nassi has been dominant all season for the Terriers and was recently named the America East Most Outstanding Player...
Perhaps instead of turning to Geraldo Rivera when tragedy strikes, we might consider turning to a Frenchman whose keen insights into America upon his visit in the mid-1800s still resonate today. Alexis de Tocqueville, in Volume Two of Democracy in America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain...
...America has always borne witness to the often-bloody struggles of competing groups. In this crucible of racial, ethnic, religious and political difference, hatred has always been a fiery element. Though racism and sexism still exist, their expression within modern American society is usually far more hidden, muted and partly emasculated by good laws that rise above the struggles of difference...
...more insidious, more present and more destructive than ever before. The hatred and prejudice of some groups towards other groups has rapidly expanded into a hatred for all but the self. No longer confined by the simple boundaries of racial or sexual difference, today's new prejudice--modern America's new hatred--does not discriminate. The individual is the insider, while all others are outsiders...
...their doors, enclaves with names like Coventry and Raccoon Creek and Bel Flower, scrubland turned into golf courses, houses than run anywhere from $75,000 to $5 million or so. There's an arch over a hallway in the high school engraved with a motto: "The finest kids in America pass through these halls...