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...around the pears and turn a beautiful golden-brown,”) I was haunted by the memory of those morning show anchors. The immediacy of the war hadn’t fazed them. Sounding chipper and grave by turns, they weaved the war in Iraq into Americans?? everyday lives as coolly as though reports on troop movements had always followed the weather forecast. Although I had been reading about the war in the newspaper and on the Internet, although I had briefly watched CNN’s “special coverage” over...
...also said that despite Americans?? differing views toward the war, they have high expectations—making mistakes costly...
While the ACLU believes quantifying the desire for liberties will demonstrate Americans?? devotion to them, Zeckhauser said his study suggests that people are willing to trade civil liberties for other benefits...
...that rank poorly, he will do no such thing. If Bush wanted to truly help American higher education, he could increase federal spending on state schools—especially at a time when state governors are being forced to cut university funding due to the slowing economy. To increase Americans?? access to education, Bush could ask Congress to spend more money on tax benefits to help low-income students afford college. There are many ways to improve education in this country, but Bush’s plan is not one of them...
Nkosi’s decision to call this photograph “Just plain African Americans?? is interesting, given that the only figures depicted are a lone black woman and a white television personality. Is Judge Judy somehow “African American”? Are the “plain African Americans?? the non-existent inhabitants of the deserted chairs? Is the woman with the magazine somehow supposed to represent her entire race? Like the title of the exhibit, much of this piece’s power is in its ambiguity and the questions...