Word: dissimilarities
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...These dissimilar waters represent a dichotomy within the Latin American gauche. On the one hand, there is that represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since his 2002 election, Lula has worked with the markets, introducing reforms to increase income equality. Although corruption scandals have become a Katrina for his political capital, and might even sink his reelection campaign, his whale-sized Brazil sails toward a richer more equal future...
...lacking in the social department; we have balked at the grad boards, who virtually control final clubs’ existence, and their adamant opposition to more integration. Yet, the conflation of CAP and the Owl in mainstream media has been unfortunate. The nature of the two organizations are so dissimilar that the claims of comparability by pundits Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly were simply nonsensical. Unlike the socially-centered missions of Harvard final clubs, CAP’s mission centered on reducing the number of minorities and women to Princeton; that is, the objective was to oust...
...meeting most of the members, but still somehow compelling every time I walk by. This world’s inhabitants and I share little to nothing in common—not gender, race, socioeconomic background, or unabashed self-entitlement, and certainly not a penchant for Nantucket Reds.But despite my dissimilar profile—and my lofty, if disingenuous, rejection of their elitism—I must secretly derive some satisfaction from their world. Otherwise, I’d be spending every Saturday night with a beer, good conversation, and the good company of world number one, hanging out in some...
...lastly “Urban Culture & Dreams Deferred.” Elaborating on his cryptic lecture titles, Mr.Van Peebles’s publicity release explains: “The starting point in each of the three lectures are the insights to be gleaned from the juxtaposition of seemingly dissimilar, unencumbered, narrowly observed, generally held to be true facts, and how the aforementioned insights lead us back to the accommodations made by our 23, sometimes it seems even 24 chromosomes.” Confused? Come out and hear Mr. Van Peebles clarify his positions in person. The lecture series promises...
...slumber parties were so great in grade school. We could eat horribly fattening food, throw ice cubes in each other’s sleeping bags, and make all sorts of obnoxious noises while adults tried futilely to calm us down—a situation not at all dissimilar from the Hong Kong on a typical weekend night.Of course now we’re too mature and politically-active to rebel against our parents, instead directing our ire toward “the Man.” Darn him and his rigid hours, we say. Yet, “the Man?...