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...dressed up," she would get dirty looks from her female co-workers. In general, hair-dos and clothing were "modest and attractive" according to a book on female fashion Soviet style. It's not that Soviet women were expected to be completely sexless. They were just not allowed to assert themselves as any sort of symbol of womanly beauty. They were utilitarian bearers of children and workers in the Soviet system...
...faith fuels a simmering debate within Judaism's major branches. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the pre-eminent voice of America's liberal Reform movement, detects "a degree of [religious] involvement that far transcends anything we've seen before." Yet it was Reform that in 1983 felt it necessary to assert that Jewish lineage, which traditionally passes through the mother, could be transmitted patrilineally as well--thereby admitting the children of Gentile mother-Jewish father intermarriages. And Reform has gone further: 88% of its temples allow non-Jews as members, and 27% even accept them as officers. For a correlative, imagine Presbyterians...
Given that Albright has decided to attend the ceremony, she has a responsibility to use her presence to assert our continued commitment to the democratic ideals of freedom, individual autonomy and self-determination. To do any less would be a sorry stand for a secretary of state renowned for her principled positions and hard lines...
...introductory chapter of We Are All Multiculturalists Now, Glazer wrote, "multiculturalism in education...has, in a word, won. I do not assert this either to sound an alarm over this victory or to celebrate...
This sort of closed-minded thinker, whose bigotry often offends many liberals, would likely be attracted to the conservative camp, and I believe that many people automatically associate this mindset with all conservatives. This association is far from accurate, however, and I would assert that there are far more Republicans who are conservative from conviction--and lack any strong sentiment against people different from themselves--rather than from fear. I find racial bigotry or intolerance of alternative lifestyles offensive, but I also recognize that students such as Melissa Langsam are by no means necessarily bigots, and I think...