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...dining hall table, and I read each one. But I just can't help wishing there were something more. Even within the month, we do a poor job of fulfilling what should be the ultimate goal, educating people about black history. No history can truly be understood without its context. If educating people about black history is not the goal, and the month is really just about commemoration and celebration, then that is wonderful. Meanwhile, however, the black children who desperately need to know their history so that they might find heroes to inspire them, and the white children...
...Science" (Science and Technology, Feb. 10): You did a good job of presenting a complicated issue. As a former two-term chair of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, however, I feel it is necessary to put this subject in a more comprehensive context...
Except, that is, in the thorny context of our social lives...
...join BGLTSA because we desire same-sex sexual interaction. The goal of the organization, then, is to legitimize homoerotic desire in the context of mainstream American society...
...events may be obscure, but they are nonetheless fascinating. Lee dismisses luge and biatholon as "stupid," and for not making any sense. I ask him how much sense football makes. The biatholon at least arises from the context of hunting during icy conditions. And many of the Winter Olympic events, while not as flashy as some of the sports Americans are accustomed to, are very technical and difficult to master. How many of us could negotiate a luge course without getting killed...