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...boiled down into simple, irreconcilable positions. In an American context, given the country’s long history of racial division, the phrase has more loaded associations. So vast is this rift that our discourse on race has assumed a corresponding dichotomy: current discussions about race inevitably consist of “for” or “against” arguments about a limited number of policy topics. An intellectual who refuses to bow to these seemingly rigid dualities, then, both replenishes an increasingly worn-out vocabulary and creates some breathing space for approaches that have been left...
When a nation doesn't have a great wealth of winter sportsmen it has to improvise. Venezuela is a case in point. The South American country's three-man team in the luge competition will consist of Werner and Christopher Hoeger, residents of Boise, Idaho, and Julio Cesar Camacho, who hangs out in Calgary, Canada. No matter where they live, the Hoegers have already established an Olympic record?as the first father and son to compete together in the luge. Father Werner, 48, on a year-long sabbatical from his teaching job at Boise State University, is happy just...
...current trends are allowed to continue, “compression in grades will create a system of grades in which A’s predominate and in which letters [of recommendation] consist primarily of praise. Meaningful distinctions will have disappeared,” according to the report...
...demand for the right of return by 3 million Palestinian refugees to Israel proper - a demand Arafat himself continues to evince as an article of faith. Nusseibeh has also conceded that the future Palestinian state would have to remain demilitarized. That said, however, he also insists it should consist of all of the Palestinian territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war, i.e. all of the West Bank and Jordan and the eastern half of Jerusalem. Nusseibeh's newfound "celebrity" - U.S. and European delegations are lining up to meet with him - is not based solely...
Frances’ personality tends towards the endearingly insane. Her hugs frequently turn into kidney punches. Her e-mails usually consist only of “asdfsjdafhsjdkffsdkj.” She uses “heh” as an noun, verb and adjective. She inpires borderline-obsessive behavior from men of all types, including men she doesn’t know who climb into her bed “because I haven’t cuddled with anyone in a while...