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...Institutional Inertia, a 355-year-old law of physics which holds that things will tend to stay the way they are--no matter how silly they are, no matter how reasonable arguments for change may be. That's why we still have final clubs, baked fish pizziola and a dearth of women and minorities on the faculty. And that's why it's going to be hard to change the face of reading and exam periods...
...REAL TRAGEDY here is that the selection committee could have done something about the dearth of minority resident tutors in Winthrop. Of course, it should not have voted to dump the qualified white males whom it will recommend, but the committee should have extended the search--made an extra effort to find minorities who might be just as qualified for the position. This is the spirit of affirmative action. No quotas. No reverse discrimination. Just a fair solution...
...dearth of serious opposition, should it persist, could be Bush's greatest asset as he seeks to win a second term. The problem the Democrats face is neatly expressed by Barbara Kantorowicz of Shoreview, Minn., a single mother who ended nine years on welfare last year when she started work for a local social-service organization, the Family Violence Network. Meanwhile, her own day-to-day financial struggle goes on. "I'm struggling just as much as when I was on welfare," she sighs. Would she vote again for George Bush, as she did in 1988? Maybe. "There...
Howard does the best he can with the limited script and space, but he gives in to preachiness. Evelyn's struggle, as a privileged African-American, is relevant in light of recent events at Harvard, such as the Confederate flag scandal and the dearth of minority faculty. The question of how to achieve equality is particularly pertinent. Howard hammers this point home by making each character's motivations and views clear, though not subtle...
...Kurds, the dearth of support for their cause is nothing new. They first began to seek independence for Kurdistan, which encompasses 28 million people in an area roughly the size of Thailand, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed after World War I. The Treaty of Sevres in 1920 promised them an independent state, but it was never ratified. Later that year, Britain annexed the oil-rich Kurdish region of Mosul to Iraq, then a British mandate. Intermittent insurgencies against Baghdad have followed ever since, and Kurds in Turkey, Iran and Syria have also remained restive...