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...these questions, at least, remove the implied accusations of prejudice that poison the atmosphere around ethnic studies. They present the case for the study of identity in its clearest form, separate from the related issue of curricular imbalance and the entirely unrelated issue of whether Harvard likes minorities. They only need to be debated once, eliminating the eternal recurrence that would follow as concentrations are requested for every “distinct social group.” And they are questions the University, as an academic community, is most capable of debating—and resolving well...
...latest wave of suicide bombings in Israel has pushed the relationship between Israel and the PA to the brink of war. The Israeli cabinet resolution that the PA is “a terror supporting entity” is the clearest indication that Palestinian reliance on terrorism as a tactic in the ongoing conflict is likely to meet even harsher Israeli responses in the future. Israel has already launched attacks against symbols of the PA’s power in the West Bank and Gaza. Whereas in the past President George W. Bush has urged Israel to show restraint...
...Education for Ninth Grade, according to a Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace report. Palestinian youth should not be taught that Zionism, the ideology that led to the creation of the state with which the PA claims to want to peace, and Nazism “are the clearest examples of racist belief and racial discrimination in the world,” as they are on page 123 of The Contemporary History of the Arabs and the World. The examples of anti-Semitism in Palestinian textbooks are endless...
Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch...
...planning right now on running for the state senate in the district that includes Harvard,” Barrios said in his clearest statement of intention...