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This week the largest international meeting in history, let alone just on the subject of the environment, will convene in Rio de Janeiro, replete with 100 heads of state and a cast of tens of thousands. Some would assert that just having the meeting represents progress, but there is every reason to wish for and expect more. Fortunately, it is no longer possible that it will be naught but an environmental Woodstock or an enormous black hole for diplomatic talent and energy. With a last-minute flurry of negotiation possible, it is as yet unclear how much progress will...
Daniel J. Libenson '92, former chair of the Hillel coordinating committee, says Feldman has often tended to assert an individual rather than group position...
Feldman terms this kind of action typical of the Jewish response to the African-American community. "It's a public expression of power," he says. "It says we're going to assert our authority over...
...then, if millions of people will stay in the ring with me and assert their role as owners of the country, and if, see, when we have these town-hall presentations, Congress, the Cabinet, the leaders in that particular field, it won't be me telling the people. It's not a fireside chat. We will really be explaining this to the people. Congress will be in the middle...
...this sense, then, "[v]ulgar cultural nationalists...like Allan Bloom or Leonard Jeffrey...are whistling in the wind." Whether they falsely assert Anglo-American culture as universal (a la Bloom) or "lay claim to the ideal of 'blackness' as an ideology or a quasi religion, totalized and essentialized into a protofascist battering ram supervised by official thought police" (a la Jeffries), they fail to ready the young for the world they will face...