Word: centricity
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...seems like every conversation I have nowadays is some relationship blah-blah bullshit. Why must Harvard conversations consist primarily of watered-down relationship-centric circumlocution? Why do we leave bold, meaningful speech for living wage protesters and angry conservatives...
...after Bush reaps his political rewards in this year's midterm elections and wins election in 2004, he can rediscover his free market principles. In three years the FTAA negotiations - which hold far more promise of concrete results for the U.S. than the Africa-centric round currently underway in Doha, Qatar - will just be beginning, and the tariffs will just be ending. Maybe Bush will have his credibility back by then...
...mission of ethnic studies is to diversify the academic curriculum to include critical perspectives of ethnic communities that have been historically neglected by Euro-centric academia and to examine the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality. Ethnic studies, the collective term that commonly refers to Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, has often been connected to minority communities, but the scholarship seeks to diversify the curriculum to examine the experiences and perspectives of all ethnic groups, including “white” ethnic groups such as Irish and Jewish Americans. In essence, ethnic studies...
Mark Thompson's overview of the need for a domestic military commander to protect American territory, "Soldier on the Beat" [HOMELAND SECURITY, Dec. 3], looks at the issue through a Pentagon-centric lens. The nation already has an armed service that conducts war and enforces the law: the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard has strong and comprehensive law-enforcement mandates, as strong as the FBI's. In recognition of the Coast Guard's unique status and capabilities, the Joint Forces Command and the Navy view the Coast Guard as responsible for the maritime component of homeland security. BRUCE STUBBS...
Like other American women after the war many of the cartoonists lost their jobs, just barely managing to find work in the burgeoning romance comicbook genre. By the late 1960s, inspired by, but excluded from, the all-male "underground" scene, women-centric comix began appearing simultaneously with the likes of "Ms." magazine. Finally, the last chapter provides an excellent primer on current women-created books, though it stops short of being a critical survey...