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...Frederick Douglass gave a famous oration on the meaning of Independence Day, asking "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet Langston Hughes grieved in verse that "(America never was America to me) ... (There's never been equality for me,/ Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free...
Getting to that point has recently become even harder. The number of applicants this year is the highest since 2004, while class size has remained roughly constant at around 900 students...
...eloquent homily used the Cathedral itself as a metaphor for his message of the Christian quest. "The spires of Saint Patrick's church are dwarfed by the skyscrapers of the New York skyline, yet in the heart of this busy metropolis, they are a vivid reminder of the constant yearning of the human spirit to rise...
...visits to the detention facility, Tarek tells him, “I am not a criminal.” Vale knows it, Mouna knows it, and the audience knows it—but we hear it repeated over and over again. In a way, this illustrates the constant need illegal immigrants feel to justify their presence in the U.S., but the whole bit seems stale by the second time we’ve heard it. It’s the same problem McCarthy has when depicting Vale’s earlier depression in multiple scenes; he presents ideas so repetitiously...
...Obama's argument is that he can rise above the divisive politics of the '90s - not just the intense partisanship, but the constant posturing and point-scoring in the service of winning a news cycle. He portrays Clinton as a victim of those war-room politics - but also a veteran practitioner. "Senator Clinton learned the wrong lesson, because she's adopted the same tactics," he said last night. He's talking about the culture of perpetual spin, where everything is fair game in the service, including your opponent's kindergarten dreams of grandeur. It's a game of guilt...