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...chances of an applicant who was “raised white.” Scott described another “ridiculous” case where a father encouraged his son to write about being Native American in his application essay, though the son was first told of his background during the application process...
...dark room with R. Kelly’s greatest hits playing in the background. Things have about a 45 percent chance of heating...
George W. Bush (thank God) will never run for president again. And though 2008 will be a choice between two different men (or: a man and a woman!), Bush’s presidency will form the background onto which that contest is drawn. Howard Dean (if he keeps his word) will also never run for president again. But maybe what Democrats need right now is someone who can say what the Republicans said in 1993: This president isn’t nice, and he isn’t right. A Democratic “stubborn strategy” might...
Johnson said she could not attribute Whitesides’ selection to “any one thing,” but she pointed to Whitesides’ strong academic background and prominence in science as the primary reasons for his nomination...
...Mori show includes a slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted. In the name of socialism, the revolution turned its back on these quintessentially humane and lyrical buildings...