Word: america
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...like in our capital, that expression needs only to remain ubiquitously free of charge as well. From Waltham to Wasilla, all of America should come down to Washington and enjoy this principle in action...
...Seeking to offer a good word for America, and for Harvard, I asked the two men what they thought about our culturally sensitive policies. Sarkozy might want to ban burqas in France, I said, but in America, women can wear what they want. In recent years, I added, Harvard has constructed a private prayer space for Muslim students, and given Muslim women special hours for working out in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. My words fell on uncomprehending ears. I was as powerless as Royal to communicate my beliefs. The two friends did not understand what I meant when...
...enduring value of a well-intentioned gesture with another kind of summit. He felt that he needed to retreat from the inflammatory words that he uttered in judgment of the Cambridge police department after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested there, sparking a national debate about race in America. Though the discourse about the arrest, its aftermath, and the realities of race problems in the country spread far and wide, Obama thought that a simple gesture might soothe the ire of the affair—an invitation to relax over a beer...
...contrast, the America that I knew growing up in California seemed to operate under different premises. What I have observed is a constantly evolving society that meets the immigrant halfway, thereby taking the edge off of the cultural confrontation and facilitating assimilation. What it has meant to be an American has been a work-in-progress for 200-plus years. Immigrants arriving here generally join family and/or move into ethnically congenial neighborhoods. They typically work in a commercial culture where, if need be, they can get by only dealing with their fellow countrymen. Television, radio, music, church services...
...achievement and employment between Arab immigrants and the rest of France, affirmative action policies have never been implemented and remain deeply unpopular. The positions and arguments of left-wing politicians in France on the subject of affirmative action could be lifted verbatim from arguments of conservative purists in America, such as Supreme Court Justices Anthony Scalia or Clarence Thomas...