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...changes and policies we felt were anti-student. We were fierce, sometimes foolishly so, in our desire to be taken seriously by the powers that were at our school. Many high schoolers, even as they strive to get into a good college (a precursor to our current job obsession), cherish this spark of rebelliousness. Where does it go when we graduate...
...black sneakers with white stripes. When he is feeling rueful and self-mocking, which is fairly often because he is a shy man, he calls himself "America's tallest radio humorist." This, the listener is meant to understand, is the kind of hick distinction that small-town Midwesterners cherish, and Keillor is splendidly and defiantly a small-town Minnesot'n. (The a missing here, Easterners and Westerners, is not pronounced, and neither, of course, is the apostrophe...
...seem implausible, but perhaps Australia is exerting its own soft power on the Middle Kingdom. Think of all those students, like Lily Liao, who say they've become "Australianized," who cherish the freedoms and friendships they've found in their second home. Or the brightest Australian graduates, who can't wait to pack their bags for a gig in Shanghai. When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics, Australians will have been behind the scenes there for years; a number of Games venues will have been conceived in Australian design and architectural offices...
...blood quanta, blood ultimately has little to do with how “Native American” a person is. Half Creeks may make the personal choice to minimize their Creek identity and stress their other half. By the same token, Cherokees generations removed from the tribe may still cherish their Cherokee heritage...
...false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false hypotheses of our colleagues and in the same way that we would expect our own mistaken ideas to be treated. We must vigorously refute his errors with compelling evidence but not with personal attacks. And just as we cherish our colleagues who make themselves vulnerable by the extent of their intellectual engagement, we should also cherish a president who loves the process of scientific inquiry so much that he makes himself vulnerable by his intellectual openness...