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...sings of restlessly driving the roads only to be stopped by police "looking for illegal immigrants." In the piano ballad Leeds, Saliers sings of being drunk and depressed in a hotel room watching "16 black churches burning on the TV." The album is rarely preachy, and the sociological context--plus some canny rock-guitar riffs--give the Girls' music even more bite than it's used...
...repeated things for so long...There was frustration. We had even waited for a craft to pick us up on several dates, and it didn't happen. Ti and Do both had a lot of depression over that." However, my quote was used out of context. It had nothing to do with so-called control, and in using the phrase "repeated things for so long," I was referring to the way teachers keep repeating basic grammar rules to students. The comment on "frustration" referred to what all of us deal with at times when we are hoping something will happen...
...past five years, but to leave it at that would beckon, as Rudenstine wrote in his Feb. 11 letter, "complacency or self-satisfaction." The President concluded his letter with the following inspiring statement: "Continued progress will depend on...ensuring that promising women scholars receive careful attention in the context of individual searches; sustaining a climate that is supportive of women and attentive to their concerns, both in reality and in perception; creating organizational structures, processes and incentives conducive to identifying and appointing outstanding tenured women; broadening and reinforcing the pathways for women to pursue and sustain academic careers; sharing information...
While entertaining the audience with his anecdotal speaking style and humorous comparisons between his own field and economics, Hodgkinson provided a context for the panel discussion...
...reached 52%. A last forlorn fantasy--that all those Gentile spouses would eventually become Jews--was punctured by a meager 9% conversion rate. In fact, 54% of the children in all Jewish households are not being raised as Jews. The result, often feared but never quite in this context: "Saving an unforeseen reversal of current trends, it appears...that the history of the Jews as we have known it and them is probably approaching...