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...here is the idea that the stabbing was an inevitable tragedy for everyone involved. By delving into the pasts of the murderers and seizing upon any tidbit of possible trauma, the media is sending a signal that this story is more complicated than it might appear. The media is correct that there are two sides to every story, but the real sides are right and wrong. Bleeding and fleeing, human and savage, dead and alive. There is no in between in an act such as this, and to pretend otherwise is irresponsible...
...series that Hughes gave early last year at the New York Public Library and subsequently summarized in a TIME cover story, "The Fraying of America" ((Feb. 3, 1992)). Among his complaints: the distortion of the ideals of multiculturalism, the erosion of the English language by partisans of the Politically Correct, the decline of education, the damage to politics and the culture in general wrought by extremists on both the left and the right. And that's only Lecture...
...Ignorance about minority groups happens, even at places like Harvard that are rich in cultural diversity," she said. "Too much talk is shrouded in [politically correct] language...
...multicultural center (or a minority students' center or a Third World center, depending on the politically correct phrase of the week) would address several of the current and future needs of many minority student groups, as well as of the undergraduate population in general. Such a center would ideally have room for office space, where Arab, Asian, Black, Latino, Native American and other student groups could share resources. Equipment that might be financially impossible for a single group (say, a copy or tax machine) would be feasible when split several ways. Furthermore, having these offices in a center used...
...expansive in the manner of a wonderful writer like [Jose] Lezama Lima, or [Jorge Luis] Borges or, for that matter, someone like Rudyard Kipling. And if I can find a readership in that way, then I think it will take the shackles of being politically and sociologically correct off of writers that may want to do different things, but don't because they're afraid...