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Kuumba began in the late 1960s when an increasing number of African-Americans entered Harvard but found the University devoid of resources able to deal with their identity, Wiley explained...
...farm animals, fertilizers and human sewage. They can spawn red tides and other harmful algal blooms that rob oxygen from the water, killing sea life. The Mississippi River, whose fine heartland silt once built fertile delta wetlands, now builds in the Gulf of Mexico a spreading dead zone--almost devoid of marine life--the size of New Jersey. Improving sewage treatment and cleaning up the runoff from farms will be increasingly vital to preserving coastal water quality...
Wisconsin? The Badgers had trouble scoring 50 points a game all year. Gonzaga--they were a Cinderella last year! While the first round was devoid of upsets, the second round was chalk full of them, and the NCAA again looks justified...
...response by Harvard students could not have been an attempt to divert attention from Buchanan's conservative message because his address was devoid of conservative issues. Whatever its merits, campaign finance reform, with adherents and detractors amongst both left and right, is not a conservative cause. Buchanan's new alliance with Marxist and extremist of the left, Lenora Fullani, who accompanied him to the ARCO Forum, is not a sign of moderation but rather of the completion of his metamorphism into prejudice-preaching populist. The only thing missing was his usual demagogic attachment of Jewish-sounding names to the Washington...
...cardinal virtue of written argument--its compatibility with dispassionate, well-reasoned debate--may also be its primary shortcoming. Written debate, precisely because it favors calm discussion to fiery rhetoric, does not allow charisma much of a forum. (Keyes is infinitely more convincing in person than on paper.) Consequently, debate devoid of the energy of charismatic orators like Keyes is less enjoyable for debaters and audiences alike...