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...equality in a society which disproportionately discourages people of a particular race or gender from pursuing their aims and realizing their potential? Equality means respecting diversity by allowing different people to develop and exercise their distinctive skills. We group people together not to stereotype, but to identify inequalities amidst the great variety of talents and goals...
...only one that was shown on a giant screen and in front of an audience. Before the instant-messaging could begin, however, a lot of spoken words had to be thrown around—Chu first gave a crash course in messaging to IM newbie Gabriella Gruder-Poni. Amidst audience protests that “this is against the rules,” Chu vocally prompted Gruder-Poni to “press send.” Finally signed on to AOL’s Instant Messenger service, the two stared intently at their laptop screens and began discussing Elizabeth...
BOSTON, Mass.—The finishing touches were put on the 2003-2004 men’s hockey season last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. Amidst a sometimes tearful send-off to the squad’s nine seniors and the announcement of the team awards and the new captain, a positive note was sounded for next season...
...perched high in the upper deck above home plate, one of 56,279 in attendance at Yankee Stadium to watch the Red Sox take on the Bronx Bombers in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. My younger brother and I sat there in the eighth inning amidst a sea of mortal enemies and started going nuts as Sox slugger David Ortiz launched a home run into the Bronx night to put the Sox up 5-2 with two innings left. It was one of the greatest moments—if not the pinnacle—of my sports...
...what did he do to stop it? Washington buzzed with these questions last week as the Bush administration defended itself against charges from its erstwhile counter-terrorism czar, Richard A. Clarke, that it did not do all it could have to avert the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Amidst this brouhaha, an ominous portent of further and more deadly attacks upon American soil went virtually unnoticed. The North Korean regime of Kim Jong Il, through its mouthpiece Radio Pyongyang, explicitly rejected America’s demand for the “complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantling?...