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...longer pretend to derive their legitimacy from any kind of coalitional "solidarity" among equally oppressed minority groups against an academic establishment they consider inherently recalcitrant to--even threatened by--challenges to white Eurocentric hegemony. A true multiculturalism can and should appeal to the very values that the academy holds dearest: thoroughness, accuracy, and, above all, curiosity. Moreover, we should set aside indiscriminate demands for more ethnic "representation" in the curriculum to embrace a new, more nuanced approach to ethnicity that discriminates between what is properly studied as an "ethnic" matter and what is better understood through other conceptual lens...
...ORDINARY BOY HAS WON AN EXTRAORDINARY victory. After two days of emotionally charged -- and televised -- testimony, Florida Circuit Judge Thomas S. Kirk granted Gregory Kingsley, 12, his dearest wish: to be "divorced" from his natural parents and adopted by George and Lizabeth Russ, the foster family he has come to love...
...quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...
...Dearest GIRLS...
...Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. But it shouldn't matter whether this wonderful comedy is really about famous people who make life tough for themselves and the ones they love most. It's like worrying whether a historical Hamlet really lusted after his mother. Postcards is no Debbie Dearest, no venomous settling of scores. For Carrie Fisher, the play's the thing -- the play of words on a stage of mixed emotions as big as a Hollywood back...