Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gregoire says he hopes better publicity overallwill correct the imbalance...
Ethnic studies sounds good. It sounds politically correct, interesting, and legitimately academic. It also sounds very, very broad. Exactly a month ago tomorrow, the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) demonstrated in favor of "E.S." outside a lecture given by Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. Did the MSA and its associated organizations really contemplate how an E. S. department might be formed? The results could take more than a few protesting students by surprise...
...treats its students so poorly? I am speaking specifically about Harvard's housing system, in which students are treated as random objects of varying shapes, sizes and colors which must be evenly distributed among houses. Students are numbers to be arranged at the whim of the great socialized, politically correct arbiter: the Housing Lottery...
...liberal, I am chagrined by this experience. The total burden of all the different taxes actually seems reasonable (if, that is, I have the amounts even approximately correct). But the complications involved in trying to pay them honestly are a disgrace. Yet conservatives should be chagrined as well. A large part of the problem is the need to go through most of the rigmarole twice: once for the federal government and again at the state level. Federalism is traditionally more of a conservative conceit than a liberal...
There is a postfeminist argument for the Wonderbra: liberation means that women can dress any way they want. No more the little bow tie and the boxy gray suit or the Sears orthopedically correct underwear beneath it. Women should feel free to be sexy in the boardroom as well as the bedroom. But then the message becomes: Notice my breasts before you notice my recommendation to go long on pork-belly futures...