Word: asserts
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...hallmarks. For starters, Xers are more racially diverse: only 70% call themselves white vs. 77% of boomers. Compared to a generation ago, nearly twice as many of today's twentysomethings--28%--agree "there is no single way to live." In this cohort, blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans assert their identity more than ever. And whites are more multicultural. Fair-haired dreadlocks are commonplace. Fashion designers knock off urban street trends rather than the other way around. Gay rights are assumed: the latest campus cause is discrimination against "transgendered persons." Body piercing has gone mainstream. As in the return...
Indeed, this argument (championed by former Chief Justice Warren Burger, among others), has always seemed goofy to me. Let's suppose for a minute that all of the historical evidence demonstrating the framers' intent to assert the essential civic right of the individual to protect his family and property did not exist (John Adams, class of 1755, and Thomas Jefferson, for example, were explicit about their beliefs; Adams insisted that Congress not "prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms"). Even if Second Amendment revisionists were right in arguing that the militia...
SENTENCED. CHADREL RINPOCHE, 58, high-ranking Tibetan monk accused of leaking information to the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader; to six years in prison; on charges of disclosing state secrets and conspiracy to split China; in Xigaze, Tibet. Chadrel is a casualty of China's determination to assert its authority over Tibet's spiritual life...
...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...