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...explained the recent improvement of the Harvard men’s cross country teams more eloquently than junior Nathan Shenk-Boright. When asked recently what prompted the men’s team’s turnaround, Shenk-Boright was blunt...
Never would Fo subjugate his work, though, to the blunt expression of such a moral message—no one knows better than a jester that to preach is to lose one’s audience. His worldview is made clear, rather, by the aesthetic that permeates his work...
California's public colleges and universities have also been scrambling to blunt the impact of Proposition 209, passed in that state the same year as the Hopwood decision. In the wake of that new law, black enrollment plunged 17% systemwide in 1998 and more than 50% at the most selective campuses. But since then, minority enrollment has been on the upswing. Part of the reason: the 4% plan, California's version of Texas' 10% plan...
...among the least noxious. The fisherfolk who invite visitors aboard their sampan settlements with offers of rice wine or bamboo bongs also sell coral and shells stolen from the few reefs that remain. And the grenades and dynamite sticks that you see stored in the cabins below give a blunt indication of the level of respect the fishermen pay to Ha Long Bay's 1994 designation by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site...
...Pressure has come from the grass roots. "With this second intifadeh, there was a crisis of conscience in the Jewish community in France," says Claudine Barouhiel, a spokeswoman for Consistoire, a 200-year-old organization that represents religious French Jewish groups. Jean Kahn, Consistoire's director, is more blunt. "A lot of people in France now believe that Arafat has just one sole objective: the destruction of Israel." That sentiment has helped transform France's Jewish community into what Barouhiel calls a "much more active and militant, much more politically organized force." The shift has been evident both...