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...know anything. Every single step was a surprise, every moment a paradox, every meeting an education. Europeans have a poor understanding of the U.S., not because they don't spend time here, but because of a smog of cliché and prejudice." Lévy tries to dispel that smog. Despite Americans' reputation for obesity, for instance, "I didn't find any more fat people here than in any French provincial town." And he wishes the U.S. well. The Vertigo in his title refers to the vertiginous identity crisis he sees Americans facing, their need to reconnect their values with...
...more remarkable given her exhausting schedule. Meissner still attends Fallston High School in the morning and skates every weekday afternoon at the University of Delaware, an hour's drive from her home. If there is any danger of her becoming a skating diva, her three elder brothers will dispel it. "They don't really pay attention to what I'm doing," she said during a break in her training last summer. Nate, a firefighter, learned about his sister's Axel feat last year only when a buddy in the firehouse saw the replay on ESPN and called him over...
...most significant because of the help he had enlisted to facilitate the task forces: Professors Drew Gilpin Faust, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Barbara J. Grosz, all members of the Faculty and strong critics of Summers’ original remarks. Inside Mass. Hall, staffers hoped that the trio would dispel notions of Summers’ estrangement from his Faculty, according to two people close to the president’s office...
...facilitates deeply understanding the challenges of African countries and working to practically meet them. Such knowledge includes history, political science, sociology, anthropology, (development) economics, public health, and environmental studies. Study of African culture and arts is of secondary importance, but is also desirable to deepen appreciation for Africa and dispel the pervasive stereotype of Africa as a primitive backwater. Reality and morality require a deep and nuanced study a troubled but not hopeless continent. This endeavor would not only confer upon Harvard further academic notability, but civic and humanitarian distinction as well...
...Rice's stop in Romania, however, failed to dispel criticism from other quarters. She is under fire over a series of reports that the CIA established clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes...