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...celebrity hands turned out to belong to none other than Gov. William F. Weld '66 and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell...
Item one runs, "The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States." The sentiment is thick here, but the content is unlikely. What is intended by "belong?" Are we to really believe that the all the people of the United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education...
...rules ever since his family became one of the few black families to move to Bridgeport in 1994. Even so, he has been spit upon, chased, beaten up "dozens of times," called "nigger" and had a beer bottle broken over his head. "I feel like we don't belong in our own home," he says. Which seems fine by those whites in Bridgeport whose greatest fear is encroachment from the Stateway projects, part of a stretch of high-rise ghettos on Chicago's South Side where the porches are caged in steel mesh, 70% of the residents are under...
...class, students are forced to view themselves as members of the groups in which they belong: white, black, male, female...
Curiously, these pretentions and neuroses often belong to the author, who self-deprecates his way into a condition of lovability. In the hilarious but uncomfortable "a plague of tics," Sedaris recounts a childhood spent compulsively licking lightbulbs and sticking butter knives into outlets...