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...Denial of equal opportunity on the grounds of race, gender, religion, nationality or political affiliation (among other possible criteria) has long since been barred," the letter said. "Discrimination based on sexual orientation thus remains a curious anomaly...
Some of the bafflement arises from a curious inability to come to terms with a failed policy, with America's greatest military defeat. But it is also due to the continuing attitude of the U.S. Government. Fifteen years after U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin slipped away in the predawn darkness of a collapsing Saigon, the U.S. has yet to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that...
Anyone interested in the doings of the Lolo tribes-people, the Tarahumara Indians, or the Berbers, Bedouins and Bushmen knew just where to look. Likewise, those curious about "The Geographical Distribution of Insanity in the U.S." (1903) or "Pelican Profiles" (1943), or anyone "In Quest of the World's Largest Frog" (1967), had a handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran...
EARTH DAY A GLOBAL FESTIVAL Not sure how to celebrate April 22? Here's a sampler of the worldwide whirl planned for the big day. The committed and the merely curious will be gathering at sites from Toulouse to Tokyo. There's something for everyone: a quiet read or a marathon rock concert, a bike ride or a mountain climb, some tree planting or trash sculpting...
...begin with a personal point, about which some may be curious. My colleagues in Social Studies have been courteous and thoughtful, consulting me at every moment to make sure that any action they took would not make my position more invidious. The members of the Sociology Department, party to this dispute, have not--not at all--behaved in similar spirit...